NOTE: New York and Kentucky did not report graduate counts by race/ethnicity, and race/ethnicity graduate counts for the District of Columbia were suppressed due to inaccuracy. Therefore, data for the AFGR for these states are not included. In addition, the AFGR could not be calculated by race/ ethnicity for Nevada as enrollments by race/ethnicity were not reported for the 2004–05 school year. For more information, see Appendix A: Guide to Sources. The AFGR is an estimate of the percentage of an entering freshman class that graduates within 4 years. For 2006–07, it equals the total number of diploma recipients in 2006–07 divided by the average membership of the 8th-grade class in 2002–03, the 9th-grade class in 2003–04, and the 10thgrade class in 2004–05. Ungraded students were allocated to individual grades proportional to each state's enrollment in those grades. Graduates include only those who earned regular diplomas or diplomas for Advanced academic achievement (e.g., honors diplomas) as defined by the state or jurisdiction. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Common Core of Data (CCD), "NCES Common Core of Data State Dropout and Completion Data File," school year 2006–07, version 1a.