Case in point to the previous post: Lexington High School, which had only a 43.7 percent graduation rate.

So will that poor showing increase the pressure to merge Lexington City Schools with Davidson County and Thomasville City Schools? But if it happens, will it help? Not necessarily:

Lexington officials say that merging the three school systems in Davidson wouldn’t help the city’s graduation rate. “We have more resources now than if we merged,” said Kim Miller, the chairman of the Lexington City Board of Education, adding that the school system would lose money it gets for having a large number of poor students.