Druze village achieves highest high school scores in Israel

29 July 2015, 6:18 pm

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The Druze town of Beit Jann in the Galilee beat out every Jewish locality in the country to achieve the highest matriculation rate in Israel in 2014.

According to the Ministry of Education, 94.4% of students in Beit Jann received their Bagrut, or graduation certificates last year, up 2.45% from 2013. Kochav Ya’ir outside of Tel Aviv came in second place nationwide with a 92.1% success rate, down 1.3% from the previous year.

At the bottom of the list, Modi’in Illit and Bnei Brak came in with 7.3% and 9.2% respectively — the lowest matriculation rate in the country. Both cities feature predominantly Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox Jewish populations.