Table 114.

Public high school graduates and dropouts, by race/ethnicity and state or jurisdiction: 2008-09

State or other jurisdiction	High school graduates, by race/ethnicity, 2008-091							Event dropout rates (percent of 9th- to 12th-graders who dropped out) during 2008-09, by race/ethnicity
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Two or more races	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Two or more races
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
United States	3,020,619	1,883,382	451,384	481,698	163,575	32,213	‡	4.1	2.7	6.6	6.0	2.4	6.3	‡
Alabama	42,033	26,380	13,884	799	509	461	—	1.5	1.4	1.7	1.6	0.7	1.2	—
Alaska	8,008	4,874	283	364	588	1,508	391	7.0	—	—	—	—	—	—
Arizona	62,374	31,895	3,519	21,607	2,007	3,346	—	8.3	6.1	10.1	10.2	5.0	12.9	—
Arkansas	28,057	19,872	5,939	1,599	442	205	—	4.1	3.5	5.7	4.7	3.8	4.5	—
California	372,310	134,816	25,420	147,717	54,701	2,890	6,766	5.0	3.2	9.2	6.2	2.4	6.8	5.5
Colorado	47,459	33,272	2,619	9,364	1,738	466	—	6.1	3.7	9.6	11.4	3.4	12.3	—
Connecticut	34,968	25,561	4,221	3,861	1,248	77	—	3.1	1.4	6.8	7.4	0.9	2.4	—
Delaware	7,839	4,602	2,438	522	246	31	—	5.1	4.1	6.9	6.6	2.3	5.4	—
District of Columbia	3,517	131	3,084	245	55	2	—	7.0	4.8	6.9	8.3	5.3	0.0	—
Florida	150,066	78,933	32,167	34,079	4,436	451	—	2.6	1.8	4.3	3.0	0.9	2.9	—
Georgia	86,163	45,921	31,949	5,052	3,101	140	—	4.2	3.4	5.3	4.7	1.8	2.3	—
Hawaii	11,508	2,065	226	487	8,673	57	—	4.9	5.3	4.6	4.8	4.6	6.6	—
Idaho	16,807	14,353	181	1,778	297	198	—	1.6	1.4	1.3	3.1	2.0	2.7	—
Illinois	130,094	82,749	21,887	19,616	5,600	242	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Indiana	62,312	52,568	6,070	2,700	834	140	—	1.7	1.5	2.7	2.3	1.0	3.0	—
Iowa	33,926	30,418	1,344	1,353	657	154	—	3.1	2.7	7.9	5.3	2.4	6.0	—
Kansas	29,702	23,569	2,321	2,655	739	418	—	2.1	1.8	3.1	3.0	1.3	3.0	—
Kentucky	41,390	36,044	4,213	710	417	6	—	2.9	2.6	4.8	4.0	2.2	3.0	—
Louisiana	35,622	19,589	14,346	718	682	287	—	6.8	4.7	9.4	8.5	3.1	6.6	—
Maine	14,093	13,397	274	116	216	90	—	3.6	3.5	4.5	4.4	2.8	8.9	—
Maryland	58,304	30,269	20,581	3,842	3,426	186	—	3.0	2.3	3.9	4.1	1.1	5.3	—
Massachusetts	65,258	48,694	5,240	6,972	3,279	171	902	2.9	1.8	5.6	7.5	1.8	4.3	3.4
Michigan	112,084	85,642	19,219	3,538	2,812	873	—	3.8	2.6	7.9	5.6	1.6	6.4	—
Minnesota	59,729	49,455	3,969	1,997	3,407	901	—	1.9	1.2	4.7	5.0	1.9	8.5	—
Mississippi	24,505	12,079	11,837	313	239	37	0	4.2	3.2	5.2	3.2	1.9	3.9	0.0
Missouri	62,969	49,938	10,111	1,591	1,058	271	—	4.3	3.1	9.6	4.9	2.2	5.0	—
Montana	10,077	8,844	65	190	115	863	—	5.0	4.1	7.5	8.3	3.5	12.3	—
Nebraska	19,501	16,275	1,054	1,617	328	227	—	2.4	1.7	6.0	4.7	1.7	5.5	—
Nevada	19,904	10,723	1,849	5,014	2,054	264	—	5.1	3.7	6.9	6.6	3.4	5.8	—
New Hampshire	14,757	13,892	359	192	276	38	—	1.7	1.7	6.0	2.1	0.7	3.1	—
New Jersey	95,085	56,875	15,220	14,808	7,776	136	270	1.6	0.9	3.4	2.9	0.3	3.5	0.7
New Mexico	17,931	6,298	478	8,760	277	2,118	—	4.9	3.8	5.2	5.0	3.1	7.1	—
New York	180,594	105,632	30,441	29,529	14,346	646	—	4.2	2.0	7.6	7.1	2.5	6.7	—
North Carolina	84,847	52,487	24,103	5,067	2,088	1,102	—	5.3	4.6	6.0	7.3	2.1	7.7	—
North Dakota	7,232	6,507	138	89	75	423	—	2.5	1.7	5.5	5.2	1.0	8.7	—
Ohio	119,883	100,117	15,630	2,113	1,835	188	—	4.2	2.8	9.9	7.8	1.7	7.6	—
Oklahoma	37,219	22,976	3,643	2,664	902	7,034	—	2.5	2.3	2.7	3.7	1.9	2.6	—
Oregon	34,022	26,558	826	4,250	1,695	693	—	3.4	2.9	6.1	5.1	2.4	6.4	—
Pennsylvania	130,242	103,712	16,424	6,509	3,428	169	—	2.3	1.6	4.6	5.9	1.5	3.4	—
Rhode Island	10,028	7,324	836	1,519	286	63	—	4.4	3.5	6.3	7.2	3.7	5.4	—
South Carolina	38,933	22,453	14,541	1,227	605	107	—	3.4	3.2	3.6	3.9	1.4	6.3	—
South Dakota	8,123	7,192	141	137	99	554	—	1.8	1.2	0.8	3.5	0.8	6.2	—
Tennessee	60,368	43,360	14,221	1,762	916	109	—	3.2	2.0	6.4	3.9	1.7	2.7	—
Texas	264,275	112,016	35,982	104,854	10,462	961	—	3.2	1.5	5.0	4.2	1.0	2.2	—
Utah	30,358	25,801	344	2,707	1,086	420	—	3.3	2.6	5.3	6.7	2.8	7.4	—
Vermont	7,209	6,822	99	61	150	39	38	2.6	—	—	—	—	—	—
Virginia	78,409	49,490	18,961	4,960	4,758	240	—	2.5	1.7	3.9	5.0	1.1	3.2	—
Washington	61,932	45,496	2,961	6,398	5,860	1,217	—	4.7	4.0	7.2	6.7	3.1	9.4	—
West Virginia	17,690	16,644	741	140	149	16	—	4.1	4.1	4.4	4.8	1.2	8.4	—
Wisconsin	65,410	53,987	4,920	3,122	2,533	848	—	2.3	1.3	8.0	5.2	2.0	4.9	—
Wyoming	5,493	4,815	65	414	69	130	—	1.1	0.7	2.7	2.7	0.3	4.5	—
Bureau of Indian    Education	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
DoD, overseas	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
DoD, domestic	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Other jurisdictions
American Samoa	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Guam	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Northern Marianas	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Puerto Rico	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
U.S. Virgin Islands	940	6	833	97	1	3	—	7.4	8.3	7.2	9.2	0.0	12.5	—

—Not available.

#Rounds to zero.

‡Reporting standards not met (too few cases).

1 Data differ slightly from figures reported in other tables due to varying reporting practices for racial/ethnic survey data.

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), Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data, 2007-08 and 2008-09. (This table was prepared August 2011.)