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Last updated on Thursday, December 17, 2015
(UNDATED) - Indiana has the seventh-highest high school graduation rate in the country.
The Education Department announced this week that the rate for the 2013-14 school year was 87.9 percent.
White students in Indiana graduated at a 90.4 percent rate. Among black students the graduation rate was 75 percent, and 83.2 percent of Hispanic students graduated.
Nationally, the Education Department says 82.3 percent of students graduated high school.
That was the highest rate since the department started using a new, uniform measure in 2010.
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