The six-year completion rates for Indigenous students are on the rise in the Nanaimo Ladysmith School District.
District principal of Aboriginal education, Ted Cadwallader said the district has been focusing on each student and things like early literacy which helps students move along in the system.
“Identifying every single student in our district whether they are at a reading level, or at their grade level, whether they are going to be okay next year. Looking at what, exactly, a student needs to graduate and making sure the students who are in Grade eight through to Grade twelve know what those graduation requirements are.”
The graduation rate for Aboriginal students in the district for 2017/18 is 62 per cent.
That’s up from 52 per cent the year before and 56 per cent the year before that.
