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provided just 41.4 percent of total school funds from local sources, below the state average of 45.8 percent. Forty-seven of the state’s school divisions, including Fauquier County, provided more in local support for education.
For 1980-81, 14.6 percent of Rappahannock's total school expenditures for operations came from state retail sales and use tax. Cumberland County was the only school division to derive a higher percentage (15.1) from that source.
Out of Rappahannock’s 1981 graduating class of 77 students. 30 (39 percent) continued their education past high school: 13 percent to a two-year college, 24.7 percent to a four-year college and 1.3 percent to some other form of continuing education.
Of the remaining 47 students w ho did not go on in school, all had marketable skills, according to Face Up.
For the state as a whole, 60.5 percent of 1981 graduates went on to higher education. In Fauquier County, the figure was 59.2 percent; in Madison, 32.2 percent; in Orange, 44 percent; in Page, 33.9 percent and in Warren, 54.9 percent.
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