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Table 106. Public high school graduates and dropouts, by race/ethnicity and state or jurisdiction: 2006-07
State or
other jurisdiction
High school graduates, by race/ethnicity, 2006-071 Event dropout rates (percent of 9th- to 12th-graders who dropped out) during 2006-07, by race/ethnicity
Total White Black Hispanic Asian/
Pacific
Islander
American
Indian/
Alaska
Native
Total White Black Hispanic Asian/
Pacific
Islander
American
Indian/
Alaska
Native
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
United States2  2,871,129 1,872,632 408,759 404,223 153,261 30,656 4.4 3.0 6.8 6.5 2.6 7.6
Alabama 38,883 25,004 12,546 580 411 342 2.3 2.1 2.8 2.5 0.7 1.0
Alaska 7,666 4,921 282 250 520 1,693 7.3 5.2 10.0 9.0 6.7 9.5
Arizona 55,954 30,578 2,930 17,593 1,699 3,154 7.6 6.3 7.9 8.5 4.1 13.2
Arkansas 26,707 19,449 5,534 1,121 449 154 4.6 4.0 6.5 5.5 2.9 4.5
California 347,912 138,595 25,737 128,462 52,252 2,866 5.5 3.5 10.0 6.8 2.7 7.7
                       
Colorado 45,628 33,031 2,417 8,100 1,635 445 6.9 4.3 10.0 13.8 4.0 12.5
Connecticut 37,541 27,384 4,689 4,139 1,227 102 2.1 1.3 3.6 4.7 1.1 3.4
Delaware 7,205 4,483 2,034 424 237 27 5.5 4.4 7.1 8.6 2.3 2.3
District of Columbia 2,944 7.1 1.6 6.9 11.0 6.1 0.0
Florida 140,012 78,413 28,099 28,861 4,234 405 3.8 2.7 5.8 4.5 1.8 3.1
                       
Georgia 76,538 43,936 26,195 3,515 2,798 94 4.6 4.3 4.9 5.8 1.7 5.2
Hawaii 11,063 2,071 197 450 8,301 44 5.4 5.9 6.6 6.6 5.1 10.8
Idaho 16,242 14,186 129 1,446 279 202 2.6 2.3 2.7 5.2 2.0 3.7
Illinois 129,181 85,552 21,116 16,128 5,963 422 4.0 2.2 7.7 6.9 1.5 3.5
Indiana 58,962 50,578 5,279 2,161 821 123 2.7 2.3 5.2 4.4 1.4 4.3
                       
Iowa 34,127 31,019 1,190 1,156 610 152 2.3 2.0 5.6 5.5 2.1 5.9
Kansas 29,377 23,858 2,236 2,283 662 338 2.7 2.2 3.8 4.3 2.3 4.6
Kentucky 39,099 3.0 2.8 4.6 5.3 1.3 2.4
Louisiana 34,274 19,767 13,051 556 658 242 7.4 5.2 10.1 8.1 4.4 7.3
Maine 13,151 12,561 227 103 184 76 5.3 5.2 6.6 6.5 5.0 13.0
                       
Maryland 57,564 31,165 19,779 3,130 3,311 179 3.8
Massachusetts 63,141 49,287 4,791 5,918 3,004 141 3.8 2.7 6.4 9.1 2.6 5.0
Michigan 111,313 86,495 17,945 3,213 2,711 949 7.4 4.7 16.6 11.8 6.0 10.2
Minnesota 59,497 50,534 3,323 1,690 3,060 890 3.0 1.9 8.0 9.6 3.2 10.0
Mississippi 24,186 12,240 11,437 227 243 39 4.3 3.4 5.2 4.8 3.0 6.3
                       
Missouri 60,275 48,677 8,970 1,371 1,035 222 3.7 3.0 6.5 6.8 2.4 4.6
Montana 10,122 8,937 49 206 144 786 3.7 3.2 5.3 6.8 1.5 7.5
Nebraska 19,873 16,800 1,226 1,290 346 211 2.8 1.9 8.3 5.9 1.9 8.2
Nevada 16,455 9,902 1,385 3,421 1,516 231 4.5 3.6 5.6 6.1 3.0 4.3
New Hampshire 13,988 13,739 257 188 237 31 3.2 3.2 5.6 4.6 0.8 11.8
                       
New Jersey 92,722 57,416 14,359 13,507 7,243 197 2.0 1.2 3.2 3.7 0.6 3.6
New Mexico 16,131 6,253 386 7,395 258 1,839 6.1 3.9 6.7 6.4 3.1 8.1
New York 168,333 5.3
North Carolina 76,710 48,226 20,526 3,364 1,824 861 5.7 2.6 8.7
North Dakota 7,159 6,542 74 68 62 413 2.3 1.8 3.8 3.9 0.0 7.9
                       
Ohio 116,136 98,390 14,058 1,899 1,652 137 4.5 3.0 9.5 19.6 2.0 9.1
Oklahoma 37,100 23,530 3,599 2,385 856 6,730 3.5 3.1 4.5 5.3 2.8 3.7
Oregon 32,643 26,227 806 3,242 1,687 681 4.6 3.8 7.9 8.3 3.2 7.4
Pennsylvania 127,830 104,217 15,515 5,566 3,173 132 5.1 6.5
Rhode Island 10,384 7,663 871 1,485 322 43 5.8 4.1 8.3 11.5 6.9 9.6
                       
South Carolina 34,970 21,062 12,643 631 462 44 3.9 3.6 4.4 4.6 2.1 6.0
South Dakota 8,346 7,535 93 116 111 491 3.9 2.7 4.3 9.3 2.2 15.5
Tennessee 54,502 40,140 12,188 1,146 934 94 3.1 2.2 5.7 5.4 2.3 3.8
Texas 241,193 112,215 32,139 86,332 9,625 882 4.0 1.9 5.8 5.6 1.5 2.9
Utah 28,276 24,679 231 2,100 876 390 3.1 2.7 4.4 6.0 2.8 6.0
                       
Vermont 6,667 6,325 91 63 92 96
Virginia 73,193 47,804 16,982 3,916 4,310 181 2.6 1.9 3.8 5.7 1.5 3.0
Washington 62,339 46,996 2,749 5,625 5,696 1,273 5.1 4.4 7.8 7.8 3.5 10.1
West Virginia 17,407 16,475 715 87 114 16 4.0 3.9 5.0 4.1 1.1 3.4
Wisconsin 63,968 54,078 4,332 2,580 2,202 776 2.2 1.3 7.8 5.2 1.9 5.1
Wyoming 5,441 4,882 53 328 59 119 5.1 4.5 7.9 8.0 2.1 12.3
                       
Bureau of Indian
   Education
DoD, overseas
DoD, domestic
Other jurisdictions                        
American Samoa 954 0 0 0 954 0
Guam
Northern Marianas 643 2 0 0 641 0 3.1
Puerto Rico 31,718 0 0 31,718 0 0
U.S. Virgin Islands 820 7 720 88 1 4 5.4 10.3 5.7 2.6 0.0 0.0
—Not available.
1 Data differ slightly from figures reported in other tables due to varying reporting practices for racial/ethnic survey data.
2 High school graduate counts include estimates for nonreporting states, based on 2006 12th-grade enrollment racial/ethnic distribution reported by state. Event dropout rate totals are totals for reporting states only.
NOTE: Includes only graduates for whom race/ethnicity was reported. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Event dropout rates measure the percentage of public school students in grades 9 through 12 who dropped out of school between one October and the next. DoD = Department of Defense.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2006-07 and 2007-08, and "NCES Common Core of Data State Dropout and Completion Data File," 2006-07; and unpublished tabulations. (This table was prepared November 2009.)

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