Table 3. Public school Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate, by year and state or jurisdiction: School years 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, and 2005

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Table 3. Public school Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate, by year and state or jurisdiction: School years 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, and 2005–06

	Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate¹
State or jurisdiction	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06
Reporting states²	73.9	75.0	74.7	73.2

Alabama	64.7	65.0	65.9	66.2
Alaska	68.0	67.2	64.1	66.5
Arizona	75.9	66.8	84.7	70.5
Arkansas	76.6	76.8	75.7	80.4
California	74.1	73.9	74.6	69.2

Colorado	76.4	78.7	76.7	75.5
Connecticut	80.9	80.7	80.9	80.9
Delaware	73.0	72.9	73.1	76.3
District of Columbia	59.6	68.2	68.8	‡
Florida	66.7	66.4	64.6	63.6

Georgia	60.8	61.2	61.7	62.4
Hawaii	71.3	72.6	75.1	75.5
Idaho	81.4	81.5	81.0	80.5
Illinois	75.9	80.3	79.4	79.7
Indiana	75.5	73.5	73.2	73.3

Iowa	85.3	85.8	86.6	86.9
Kansas	76.9	77.9	79.2	77.6
Kentucky	71.7	73.0	75.9	77.2
Louisiana	64.1	69.4	63.9	59.5
Maine	76.3	77.6	78.6	76.3

Maryland	79.2	79.5	79.3	79.9
Massachusetts	75.7	79.3	78.7	79.5
Michigan	74.0	72.5	73.0	72.2
Minnesota	84.8	84.7	85.9	86.2
Mississippi	62.7	62.7	63.3	63.5

Missouri	78.3	80.4	80.6	81.0
Montana	81.0	80.4	81.5	81.9
Nebraska	85.2	87.6	87.8	87.0
Nevada	72.3	57.4	55.8	55.8
New Hampshire	78.2	78.7	80.1	81.1

New Jersey	87.0	86.3	85.1	84.8
New Mexico	63.1	67.0	65.4	67.3
New York	60.9	—	65.3	67.4
North Carolina	70.1	71.4	72.6	71.8
North Dakota	86.4	86.1	86.3	82.1

Ohio	79.0	81.3	80.2	79.2
Oklahoma	76.0	77.0	76.9	77.8
Oregon	73.7	74.2	74.2	73.0
Pennsylvania	81.7	82.2	82.5	—
Rhode Island	77.7	75.9	78.4	77.8

South Carolina	59.7	60.6	60.1	—
South Dakota	83.0	83.7	82.3	84.5
Tennessee	63.4	66.1	68.5	70.6
Texas	75.5	76.7	74.0	72.5
Utah	80.2	83.0	84.4	78.6

Vermont	83.6	85.4	86.5	82.3
Virginia	80.6	79.3	79.6	74.5
Washington	74.2	74.6	75.0	72.9
West Virginia	75.7	76.9	77.3	76.9
Wisconsin	85.8	—	86.7	87.5
Wyoming	73.9	76.0	76.7	76.1

Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas³	—	—	—	—
DDESS: DoDs Domestic³	—	—	—	—
Bureau of Indian Education	—	—	—	—
American Samoa	81.0	80.2	77.9	81.0
Guam	56.3	48.4	—	—
Northern Marianas Islands	65.2	75.3	75.4	80.2
Puerto Rico	67.8	64.8	61.7	68.6
U.S. Virgin Islands	53.5	—	—	—
— Not available.
‡ 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 Reporting states totals include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported data.
³ 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), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1998–99, Version 1c; 1999–2000, Version 1c; 2000–01, Version 1b; 2001–02, Version 1b; 2002–03, Version 1b; and "NCES Common Core of Data State Dropout and Completion Data File," School Year 2005–06, Version 1b.

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