Table 1. Public school number of graduates, Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate, and estimated first-time 9th graders in 2002–03, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2005–06

State or jurisdiction	Number of graduates	Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate1	Estimated first-time 9th graders in 2002–032
			Average	8th grade enrollment base, 2001–02	9th grade enrollment base, 2002–03	10th grade enrollment base, 2003–04
Reporting States3	2,649,594	73.2	3,618,676	3,446,714	3,909,732	3,499,585
Alabama	37,918	66.2	57,311	56,591	61,646	53,695
Alaska	7,361	66.5	11,069	10,702	11,881	10,623
Arizona	54,091	70.5	76,747	70,273	80,209	79,757
Arkansas	28,790	80.4	35,810	35,494	36,515	35,422
California	343,515	69.2	496,213	466,594	527,439	494,606
Colorado	44,424	75.5	58,820	56,540	63,076	56,844
Connecticut	36,222	80.9	44,780	43,954	46,840	43,547
Delaware	7,275	76.3	9,529	9,397	10,409	8,782
District of Columbia	‡	‡	4,676	3,908	5,260	4,859
Florida	134,686	63.6	211,922	194,250	249,877	191,640
Georgia	73,498	62.4	117,846	112,145	131,543	109,851
Hawaii	10,922	75.5	14,466	13,714	16,151	13,535
Idaho	16,096	80.5	20,003	19,592	20,453	19,963
Illinois	126,817	79.7	159,188	152,064	169,367	156,134
Indiana	57,920	73.3	79,049	77,363	83,008	76,774
Iowa	33,693	86.9	38,784	37,486	40,126	38,741
Kansas	29,818	77.6	38,450	37,250	40,275	37,823
Kentucky	38,449	77.2	49,828	47,448	53,981	48,055
Louisiana	33,275	59.5	55,931	61,377	58,018	48,397
Maine	12,950	76.3	16,966	17,554	17,237	16,106
Maryland	55,536	79.9	69,517	66,651	75,251	66,649
Massachusetts	61,272	79.5	77,085	75,218	82,071	73,967
Michigan	102,582	72.2	142,032	132,548	157,543	136,004
Minnesota	58,898	86.2	68,290	66,797	69,177	68,895
Mississippi	23,848	63.5	37,530	37,806	40,275	34,508
Missouri	58,417	81.0	72,092	70,080	75,853	70,344
Montana	10,283	81.9	12,563	12,410	12,999	12,281
Nebraska	19,764	87.0	22,720	21,757	24,032	22,372
Nevada	16,455	55.8	29,490	27,079	32,661	28,730
New Hampshire	13,988	81.1	17,257	17,169	17,841	16,759
New Jersey	90,049	84.8	106,173	103,099	110,271	105,147
New Mexico	17,822	67.3	26,498	25,012	28,861	25,622
New York	161,817	67.4	240,159	220,395	264,969	235,112
North Carolina	76,710	71.8	106,836	102,126	117,724	100,658
North Dakota	7,192	82.1	8,755	8,514	9,091	8,659
Ohio	117,356	79.2	148,223	142,137	158,180	144,353
Oklahoma	36,497	77.8	46,899	46,004	49,202	45,491
Oregon	32,394	73.0	44,363	43,172	45,706	44,211
Pennsylvania	—	—	153,077	146,686	161,408	151,136
Rhode Island	10,108	77.8	12,999	12,458	13,863	12,676
South Carolina	—	—	57,281	53,043	67,563	51,238
South Dakota	8,589	84.5	10,164	10,018	10,479	9,996
Tennessee	50,880	70.6	72,032	69,365	77,384	69,348
Texas	240,485	72.5	331,916	310,762	375,136	309,851
Utah	29,050	78.6	36,977	36,627	36,919	37,387
Vermont	6,779	82.3	8,239	7,979	8,498	8,241
Virginia	69,597	74.5	93,449	88,352	101,958	90,036
Washington	60,213	72.9	82,596	77,933	87,735	82,120
West Virginia	16,763	76.9	21,810	21,689	23,083	20,660
Wisconsin	63,003	87.5	72,036	66,558	77,508	72,043
Wyoming	5,527	76.1	7,264	7,211	7,411	7,170
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas4	—	—	4,526	4,985	4,648	3,945
DDESS: DoDs Domestic4	—	—	1,221	1,659	1,188	815
Bureau of Indian Education	—	—	3,679	3,676	3,952	3,410
American Samoa	879	81.0	1,085	1,089	1,123	1,041
Guam	—	—	—	2,311	—	2,687
Northern Marianas Islands	670	80.2	835	783	913	808
Puerto Rico	31,896	68.6	46,478	47,984	46,066	45,383
U.S. Virgin Islands	868	—	—	—	1,857	1,243
— Not available. Enrollment base not presented when diploma data are not reported.
‡ Reporting standards were not met. Reported number of graduates exceeded grade 12 membership.
1 Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR) is an estimate of the percentage of an entering freshman class graduating in 4 years. For 2005–06, it equals the total number of diploma recipients in 2005–06 divided by the average membership of the 8th-grade class in 2001–02,the 9th-grade class in 2002–03, and the 10th-grade class in 2003–04.
2 The enrollment base for the rate was estimated as the average of student membership in grades 8, 9, and 10 in 3 consecutive years.
3 Reporting states totals include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported data.
4 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependents schools(domestic), respectively.
NOTE: Ungraded students were allocated to individual grades proportional to each state's enrollment in those grades.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "NCES Common Core of Data State Dropout and Completion Data File," School Year 2005–06, Version 1b; "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2001–02, Version 1c; 2002–03, Version 1b; 2003–04, Version 1b.