Selected Findings:
High School Completers: School Year 2003–04

Almost 2.6 million students were awarded a high school diploma or other high school completion credential in school year 2003–04 (table 5). This includes 2.5 million students who received a regular high school diploma and 47,522 students who received some other type of credential. There were 184,885 individuals age 19 or younger who passed the General Educational Development (GED) examination.⁶ The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), an estimate of the percentage of high school students who graduate on time (i.e., within 4 years), was 75.0.⁷

---

⁶ GED data were acquired from the General Educational Development Testing Service.
⁷ Data were previously reported in Seastrom et al, 2006. See appendix A for more information about the AFGR.