From the report: "National averages obscure significant variation in the pandemic’s impact on educational attainment across states and districts. Although national high school graduation rates were marginally higher in 2022 than in 2019, most states actually saw a decline in graduation rates over that period. Trends in attainment outcomes before and after the pandemic were most variable at the district level: less than half of the nation’s districts followed the national pattern of rebounded high school graduation rates by 2022."