The State Board of Education’s Globally Competitive Students Committee recognized the dropout prevention efforts of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools at its March meeting.
The district was praised for decreasing its dropout rate by 29.6 percent. The district’s dropout rate fell to 1.12 percent in 2006-07 from 1.59 percent in 2005-06.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has the lowest dropout rate in the state.