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 Executive Summary Introduction Event and Status Dropout Rates Type of Dropout Rates Event Dropout Rates Status Dropout Rates High School Completion Rates High School Completion Rates Method of High School Completion Conclusions Text Tables and Figures Full Report (PDF)
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Region and State In 1999, event dropout rates across all four regions of the country ranged from 7.1 percent in the West and 4.8 percent in the South to 4.0 percent in the Northeast and 3.9 percent in the Midwest (table 1). Students living in the West were more likely than those living in the Northeast and Midwest to become dropouts. However, students in the West were not statistically different from students living in the South to become dropouts in 1999. For the past 7 years, the Common Core of Data (CCD) universe collection at NCES has included a dropout component in the agency-level nonfiscal data collection. The number of participating states that report using consistent data definitions and collection procedures has increased from 14 states in the 1991-92 school year to 37 states and the District of Columbia for the 1997-98 school year (table 2)14. Each year a number of additional states submit data that do not meet the specified definitions and collection procedures. Once all states are participating fully in this data collection, event data for sex, race/ethnicity, and grades 9-12 will be aggregated at the national level. The state level dropout rates for 1997-98 showed considerable variability ranging from 2.8 percent in North Dakota and Wisconsin to 12.8 percent in the District of Columbia (table 2). In all, there were 3 states with dropout rates of less than 3 percent. Apart from North Dakota and Wisconsin, Iowa had a dropout rate of 2.9 percent. Besides the District of Columbia, two other states had dropout rates of over 10 percent. Louisiana had a dropout rate of 11.4 percent and Nevada had a dropout rate of 10.1 percent.
14 The 1991-92 rates are not shown in this report. For event dropout rates by state from the 1991-1992 and 1992-93 school years, see U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Dropout Rates in the United States: 1993, NCES 94-669, by M. McMillen and P. Kaufman (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994), table 29. | |
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