The city’s four-year high school graduation rate jumped to 64.2 percent in the 2013-14 school year — up from 61.3 percent the previous year, the state Education Department reported Thursday.
A decade ago, the graduation rate was a dismal 46.5%.
State Education Commissioner John King said that while the numbers were headed in the right direction, a significant number of students still weren’t making the grade.
“While the increased graduation rates are encouraging, nearly one in four students is not graduating after four years,” King said.
The other downside to the good news was that only 38 percent of graduates were considered “college ready.”
The latest figures covered the last six months of the Bloomberg administration and the first six of the de Blasio administration.
Statewide, the graduation rate went up to 76.4 percent from 74.9 percent.