Graduation rates for Nova Scotia high schools are provided by school board and gender for the 2016-17 academic year, alongside historical trend data. The dataset defines graduation rate as the percentage of students receiving a diploma compared to the grade 9 cohort three years earlier. It is published by the Government of Nova Scotia on the open_canada platform.
Use Cases
- Compare graduation performance across different school boards based on board-level data.
- Analyze gender disparities in high school completion based on gender-specific graduation information.
- Track long-term trends in graduation rates based on historical data.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of educational programs using the defined cohort-based graduation rate metric.
Strengths
- Includes data disaggregated by school board and gender.
- Provides historical graduation rates for trend analysis.
- Published by a government authority (Government of Nova Scotia).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to Nova Scotia.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Nova Scotia
- Time Range
- 2016-17 academic year and historical periods
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:31:03.143790; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Nova Scotia, Canada