OHIO — The state of Ohio released its 2023 report cards for its districts, ranking each one on a scale of one to five stars. 

Each district was evaluated on the following categories: achievement, progress, gap closing, early literacy, graduation and readiness for college, career, workforce and military. 

As for graduation rates, there are three sections noted on the report card data: 

There's the four-year graduation rate includes Class of 2022 students who graduated high school within four years — meaning they entered in the fall of 2018 and graduated by the summer of 2022. ODE said the four-year rate was calculated by dividing the number of students who graduated in four years or less by the number of students who formed the final adjusted cohort for the class. 

The five-year graduation rate applies to the students of the Class of 2021 who graduated high school within five years, meaning they entered in the fall of 2017 and graduated by the summer of 2022. This number is calculated the same way as the four-year graduation rate, using students who graduate in five years or less.

The third section is the Graduation Component Rate. The four-year graduation rate is weighted at 60%, whereas the five-year graduation rate has a weight of 40%. These weights are multiplied by the resulting graduation rates to get the Graduation Component Rate. 

According to the data, here are the 10 schools with the highest and lowest Graduation Component Rate across northeastern Ohio, central Ohio and southwestern Ohio.