Table 13. Averaged freshman graduation rates of public high school students and change in rates, by state: School years 2001–02 to 2004–05 |
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Averaged freshman graduation rate (percent) | Change in rates from 2003–04 to 2004–05 | |||||
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State | 2001–02 | 2002–03 | 2003–04 | 2004–05 | ||
United States | 72.6 | 73.9 | 75.01 | 74.7 | -0.3 | |
Alabama | 62.1 | 64.7 | 65.0 | 65.9 | 0.9 | |
Alaska | 65.9 | 68.0 | 67.2 | 64.1 | -3.1 | |
Arizona | 74.7 | 75.9 | 66.8 | 84.7 | 17.9 | |
Arkansas | 74.8 | 76.6 | 76.8 | 75.7 | -1.1 | |
California | 72.7 | 74.1 | 73.9 | 74.6 | 0.7 | |
Colorado | 74.7 | 76.4 | 78.7 | 76.7 | -2.0 | |
Connecticut | 79.7 | 80.9 | 80.7 | 80.9 | 0.2 | |
Delaware | 69.5 | 73.0 | 72.9 | 73.1 | 0.2 | |
District of Columbia | 68.4 | 59.6 | 68.2 | 68.8 | 0.6 | |
Florida | 63.4 | 66.7 | 66.4 | 64.6 | -1.8 | |
Georgia | 61.1 | 60.8 | 61.2 | 61.7 | 0.5 | |
Hawaii | 72.1 | 71.3 | 72.6 | 75.1 | 2.5 | |
Idaho | 79.3 | 81.4 | 81.5 | 81.0 | -0.5 | |
Illinois | 77.1 | 75.9 | 80.3 | 79.4 | -0.9 | |
Indiana | 73.1 | 75.5 | 73.5 | 73.2 | -0.3 | |
Iowa | 84.1 | 85.3 | 85.8 | 86.6 | 0.8 | |
Kansas | 77.1 | 76.9 | 77.9 | 79.2 | 1.3 | |
Kentucky | 69.8 | 71.7 | 73.0 | 75.9 | 2.9 | |
Louisiana | 64.4 | 64.1 | 69.4 | 63.9 | -5.5 | |
Maine | 75.6 | 76.3 | 77.6 | 78.6 | 1.0 | |
Maryland | 79.7 | 79.2 | 79.5 | 79.3 | -0.2 | |
Massachusetts | 77.6 | 75.7 | 79.3 | 78.7 | -0.6 | |
Michigan | 72.9 | 74.0 | 72.5 | 73.0 | 0.5 | |
Minnesota | 83.9 | 84.8 | 84.7 | 85.9 | 1.2 | |
Mississippi | 61.2 | 62.7 | 62.7 | 63.3 | 0.6 | |
Missouri | 76.8 | 78.3 | 80.4 | 80.6 | 0.2 | |
Montana | 79.8 | 81.0 | 80.4 | 81.5 | 1.1 | |
Nebraska | 83.9 | 85.2 | 87.6 | 87.8 | 0.2 | |
Nevada | 71.9 | 72.3 | 57.4 | 55.8 | -1.6 | |
New Hampshire2 | 77.8 | 78.2 | 78.7 | 80.1 | 1.4 | |
New Jersey | 85.8 | 87.0 | 86.3 | 85.1 | -1.2 | |
New Mexico | 67.4 | 63.1 | 67.0 | 65.4 | -1.6 | |
New York | 60.5 | 60.9 | — | 65.3 | — | |
North Carolina | 68.2 | 70.1 | 71.4 | 72.6 | 1.2 | |
North Dakota | 85.0 | 86.4 | 86.1 | 86.3 | 0.2 | |
Ohio | 77.5 | 79.0 | 81.3 | 80.2 | -1.1 | |
Oklahoma | 76.0 | 76.0 | 77.0 | 76.9 | -0.1 | |
Oregon | 71.0 | 73.7 | 74.2 | 74.2 | 0.0 | |
Pennsylvania | 80.2 | 81.7 | 82.2 | 82.5 | 0.3 | |
Rhode Island | 75.7 | 77.7 | 75.9 | 78.4 | 2.5 | |
South Carolina | 57.9 | 59.7 | 60.6 | 60.1 | -0.5 | |
South Dakota | 79.0 | 83.0 | 83.7 | 82.3 | -1.4 | |
Tennessee | 59.6 | 63.4 | 66.1 | 68.5 | 2.4 | |
Texas | 73.5 | 75.5 | 76.7 | 74.0 | -2.7 | |
Utah | 80.5 | 80.2 | 83.0 | 84.4 | 1.4 | |
Vermont | 82.0 | 83.6 | 85.4 | 86.5 | 1.1 | |
Virginia | 76.7 | 80.6 | 79.3 | 79.6 | 0.3 | |
Washington | 72.2 | 74.2 | 74.6 | 75.0 | 0.4 | |
West Virginia | 74.2 | 75.7 | 76.9 | 77.3 | 0.4 | |
Wisconsin | 84.8 | 85.8 | — | 86.7 | — | |
Wyoming | 74.4 | 73.9 | 76.0 | 76.7 | 0.7 | |
— Not available. | ||||||
1 The national estimate of 75.0 percent for 2003–04 does not include data from two states with missing diploma counts: New York and Wisconsin. When the national estimate is adjusted to account for missing information for these two states by using the 2002–03 rates for these states, the adjusted national rate for 2003–04 is 74.3 percent. | ||||||
2 New Hampshire included homeschooled students in reported membership in 2000–01. This could inflate the denominator for the AFGR in 2002–03, 2003–04, and 2004–05 slightly. | ||||||
NOTE: The averaged freshman graduation rate (AFGR) is an estimate of the percentage of an entering freshman class graduating in 4 years. For 2004–05, it equals the total number of diploma recipients in 2004–05 divided by the average membership of the 8th-grade class in 2000–01, the 9th-grade class in 2001–02, and the 10th-grade class in 2002–03. Ungraded students were allocated to individual grades proportionally to the reported enrollments by grade. | ||||||
SOURCE: Seastrom, M., Hoffman, L., Chapman, C., and Stillwell, R. (2005). The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate for Public High Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Years 2001–02 and 2002–03 (NCES 2006-601), table 1; Seastrom, M., Hoffman, L., Chapman, C., and Stillwell, R. (2007). The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate for Public High Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Years 2002–03 and 2003–04 (NCES 2006-606rev), table 1; Sable, J., and Garofano, A. (2007). Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment, High School Completions, and Staff From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2005–06 (NCES 2007-352), table 4. |