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Record Setting Graduation Rates in Tennessee

The Tennessee Department of Education has announced the 2024-25 statewide graduation rate is 92.3 percent, breaking the previous record achieved in the 2023-24 school year at 92.1 percent.

1,892 more students graduated in the 2025 cohort compared to last year, for a total of 69,124 students graduating across the state.

  • Bledsoe County High School 93.9%
  • Grundy County High School 90.2%
  • Marion County High School 92.7%
  • South Pittsburg High School 93.8%
  • Whitwell High School 97.7%
  • Richard Hardy High School 100%
  • Sequatchie County High School 93%

Lucky Knott

Lucky Knott is a longtime broadcaster, sportscaster, and news reporter, having worked in radio here in the Sequatchie Valley and in Coffee and Grundy County for many years. You can hear his news reports weekday mornings and afternoons on The River 104.9 WEPG in Marion County and Country Roads 93.3 in Dunlap/Pikeville. He is also Editor for SValleyNow.com - Sequatchie Valley Now.