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State or jurisdiction | Number of dropouts1 | Dropout rate1,2 | Enrollment grades 9–122 |
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Reporting states3 | 617,948 | 4.4 | 14,020,715 |
Alabama | 4,978 | 2.3 | 212,555 |
Alaska | 3,089 | 7.3 | 42,441 |
Arizona | 23,188 | 7.6 | 306,637 |
Arkansas | 6,456 | 4.6 | 139,845 |
California | 108,723 | 5.5 | 1,980,710 |
Colorado | 16,265 | 6.9 | 234,127 |
Connecticut | 3,637 | 2.1 | 174,673 |
Delaware | 2,020 | 5.5 | 36,696 |
District of Columbia | 1,342 | 7.1 | 18,934 |
Florida | 30,542 | 3.8 | 796,316 |
Georgia | 21,101 | 4.6 | 462,649 |
Hawaii | 2,938 | 5.4 | 54,687 |
Idaho | 2,108 | 2.6 | 79,951 |
Illinois | 25,500 | 4.0 | 637,669 |
Indiana | 8,489 | 2.7 | 312,056 |
Iowa | 3,607 | 2.3 | 156,140 |
Kansas | 3,857 | 2.7 | 142,569 |
Kentucky | 5,958 | 3.0 | 195,894 |
Louisiana | 13,535 | 7.4 | 183,696 |
Maine | 3,254 | 5.3 | 61,594 |
Maryland | 10,298 | 3.8 | 272,575 |
Massachusetts | 11,431 | 3.8 | 298,043 |
Michigan | 40,778 | 7.4 | 550,751 |
Minnesota | 8,483 | 3.0 | 278,898 |
Mississippi | 5,915 | 4.3 | 136,664 |
Missouri | 10,688 | 3.7 | 286,078 |
Montana | 1,777 | 3.7 | 47,468 |
Nebraska | 2,594 | 2.8 | 91,811 |
Nevada | 5,502 | 4.5 | 121,370 |
New Hampshire | 2,177 | 3.2 | 66,998 |
New Jersey | 7,539 | 2.0 | 386,452 |
New Mexico | 5,818 | 6.1 | 95,497 |
New York | 35,588 | 5.3 | 677,026 |
North Carolina | 23,619 | 5.7 | 414,948 |
North Dakota | 751 | 2.3 | 32,233 |
Ohio | 25,436 | 4.5 | 569,928 |
Oklahoma | 6,292 | 3.5 | 179,257 |
Oregon | 7,489 | 4.6 | 162,847 |
Pennsylvania | — | — | — |
Rhode Island | 2,835 | 5.8 | 48,817 |
South Carolina | 8,102 | 3.9 | 205,121 |
South Dakota | 1,463 | 3.9 | 37,789 |
Tennessee | 9,116 | 3.1 | 290,717 |
Texas | 50,824 | 4.0 | 1,273,923 |
Utah | 4,765 | 3.1 | 152,236 |
Vermont | — | — | — |
Virginia | 9,983 | 2.6 | 378,755 |
Washington | 16,945 | 5.1 | 331,093 |
West Virginia | 3,335 | 4.0 | 84,366 |
Wisconsin | 6,440 | 2.2 | 292,017 |
Wyoming | 1,378 | 5.1 | 27,198 |
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions | |||
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas4 | — | — | — |
DDESS: DoDs Domestic4 | — | — | — |
Bureau of Indian Education | — | — | — |
American Samoa | — | — | — |
Guam | — | — | — |
Northern Marianas Islands | 99 | 3.1 | 3,214 |
Puerto Rico | — | — | — |
U.S. Virgin Islands | 271 | 5.4 | 5,047 |
— Not available. State did not report dropout counts or reported counts that did not conform to the NCES definition. | |||
1 Ungraded students (students not in a standard grade) who drop out of school are assigned by the local education agency (LEA) to the graded dropout count that most closely matches the grade they would have been enrolled in based on their age. | |||
2 Ungraded student enrollments are prorated by NCES into grades based on graded enrollments to calculate denominators for dropout rates. | |||
3 Reporting states totals include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported data. | |||
4 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependents schools (domestic), respectively. | |||
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "NCES Common Core of Data State Dropout and Completion Data File," School Year 2006–07, Version 1a. |
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