Academics
Metric Five
Metric 5: NCLEX-RN Pass Rates
NCLEX-RN outcomes remained consistently strong over 2020–2025, meeting the state’s 80% threshold each year and exceeding national pass rates in all reported years. Performance peaked at 95.00% in 2020, moderated through 2022–2023 (low of 81.69%), and rebounded sharply to 92.00% in 2024 before easing to 84.09% in 2025.
| NCLEX-RN Pass Rates | SGSC | Georgia | National | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 86.67 | 85.24 | 78.78 | ||||
| 2022 | 82.26 | 82.21 | 77.93 | ||||
| 2023 | 81.69 | 91.44 | 87.76 | ||||
| 2024 | 92.00 | 93.09 | 90.63 | ||||
| 2025 | 84.09 | 85.44 | 86.05 | ||||
| 5-Year Average | 85.34 | 87.48 | 84.23 | ||||
| Source: Georgia Board of Nursing. | |||||||
Analysis and Evaluation of Metric 5
Over the most recent five-year period provided (2021–2025), SGSC’s average (85.34%) closely tracks the Georgia average (87.48%) and remains slightly above the national average (84.23%), reflecting a competitive position within the state and continued advantage nationally. Although the 2025 rate dipped from 2024, it stayed above the 80% benchmark and near the Georgia average for that year (85.44% vs. 86.05% national, 85.44% state), underscoring durable program quality with some year-to-year variability. Ongoing focus on targeted remediation, clinical judgment development aligned with the Next Gen NCLEX, and structured NCLEX preparation should help stabilize outcomes near or above the state mean while maintaining the program’s long-term edge over national results.