On-time high school graduation rates increased at the beginning of the pandemic
Despite the COVID-19-related school closures in Canada and the subsequent transition to distance learning, almost all provinces and territories saw graduation rates increase at the end of the 2019/2020 school year. However, the gap in on-time graduation rates between young men (81%) and young women (87%) persisted, with the rate for young women being 6 percentage points higher than that of their male counterparts.
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