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Overview of Public Elementary and Secondary Students, Staff, Schools, School Districts, Revenues, and Expenditures: School Year 2004–05 and Fiscal Year 2004

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.