recent public board meeting, the Surrey School District shared that its Indigenous student graduation rate has returned to the 2021-22 graduation rate and is on pace to meet its goal for 2028. The district reports that in 2023-24, the five-year graduation rate for Indigenous students recovered from 50% to 57%. The district is now on track towards its goal of increasing its Indigenous graduation rate by 15-20% by 2028. Peace Arch News reports that 3.9% of the Surrey School District’s student population is made up of Indigenous students. “The graduation rate is the gold standard across the province and what everyone looks at as the indicator of how successful the school districts are, in particular with Indigenous learners,” said Surrey School District Director of Instruction with indigenous Learning Lyn Daniels. “Thankfully, all of our efforts have seen improvement in our five-year completion rate, and as well as our six-year completion rate.”
