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New figures released by the provincial government show the English Montreal School Board achieved the highest success rate among public school boards in Quebec for a cohort of students that started high school in 2011.

The roughly 77,000 students from across the province were tracked during a seven-year period following their first year of high school, a method used by the provincial government since the early 1990s to determine success rates across school boards.

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The results showed 92.4 per cent of EMSB students earned a high school certification during the seven years.

The EMSB’s rate is above the provincewide rate for public and private schools together, 81.8 per cent, and only slightly below the success rate for private schools across the province, 92.9 per cent. The success rate for public schools was 78.6 per cent.

Of the same cohort of students, 82.8 per cent of EMSB students graduated in five years, compared to the provincewide rate of 70.8 per cent.