Minnesota’s high school graduation rate is 81.9 percent, up seven-tenths of a point from 2014. State officials say while this year’s gains were modest, the state’s graduation rate has gone up nearly six-and-a-half percent since 2010, versus only a one-percent increase total for the five years before that. The goal is a 90-percent high school graduation rate. Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith notes since 2010, the state has cut disparities in graduation rates between students of color and white students by 38 percent.