EDUCATION

SUSD’s Native American students graduating at high rate

Roughly 97% of Scottsdale Unified School District’s Native American seniors graduated last year. That is 61 students.

(Courtesy Russel Toof/Wikipedia Commons)

Native American students are graduating in Scottsdale Unified School District at a higher rate than the student body as a whole, according to district Native American education coordinator Sheila Cepress.

Just over 97% of Native American seniors in the district graduated in the 2024-25 school year, Cepress told the district’s governing board during its April 7 meeting.

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