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Table A–3. Summary table of high school dropout, completion, and graduation rates presented in this report
| Rate | 2005 statistic |
Age group |
Description | Purpose | GED status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event dropout rate | 3.8 | 15–24 | Percentage of | Indicator of the | Students who get |
| high school | annual rate at | an equivalency | |||
| students who have | which U.S. high | certificate do not | |||
| dropped out of | school students | count as dropouts. | |||
| grades 10–12 in | are leaving school | ||||
| the past year | with an unsuc– | ||||
| cessful outcome | |||||
| Status dropout rate | 9.4 | 16–24 | Percentage of | Indicator of the | Students who |
| people who are not | proportion of young | have earned an | |||
| enrolled in high | people who lack | equivalency | |||
| school and who do | a basic high | credential do not | |||
| not have a high | school education | count as dropouts. | |||
| school credential | |||||
| Status completion rate | 87.6 | 18–24 | Percentage of | Indicator of the | People who have |
| young adults who | proportion of | earned an | |||
| have left high school | young adults who | equivalency | |||
| and who hold a high | have a basic high | credential count | |||
| school credential | school education | as completers. | |||
| Averaged freshman | 75.0 | Not | Percentage of | Indicator of on– | High school |
| graduation rate | applicable | public high school | time graduation | equivalency | |
| students who | from public schools | credentials are | |||
| graduate with a | not counted as | ||||
| regular diploma | “graduation.” Not | ||||
| 4 years after | a cohort on–time | ||||
| starting 9th grade | graduation statistic. | ||||
