Table 3. Public high school Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate, by year and state or jurisdiction: School years 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, and 2007–08 |
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73.9 | 75.0 | 74.7 | 73.2 | 73.9 | 74.9 | 3 |
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Alabama | 64.7 | 65.0 | 65.9 | 66.2 | 67.1 | 69.0 | |
Alaska | 68.0 | 67.2 | 64.1 | 66.5 | 69.1 | 69.1 | |
Arizona | 75.9 | 66.8 | 84.7 | 70.5 | 69.6 | 70.7 | |
Arkansas | 76.6 | 76.8 | 75.7 | 80.4 | 74.4 | 76.4 | |
California | 74.1 | 73.9 | 74.6 | 69.2 | 70.7 | 71.2 | |
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Colorado | 76.4 | 78.7 | 76.7 | 75.5 | 76.6 | 75.4 | |
Connecticut | 80.9 | 80.7 | 80.9 | 80.9 | 81.8 | 82.2 | |
Delaware | 73.0 | 72.9 | 73.1 | 76.3 | 71.9 | 72.1 | |
District of Columbia | 59.6 | 68.2 | 68.8 | — | 54.9 | 56.0 | |
Florida | 66.7 | 66.4 | 64.6 | 63.6 | 65.0 | 66.9 | |
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Georgia | 60.8 | 61.2 | 61.7 | 62.4 | 64.1 | 65.4 | |
Hawaii | 71.3 | 72.6 | 75.1 | 75.5 | 75.4 | 76.0 | |
Idaho | 81.4 | 81.5 | 81.0 | 80.5 | 80.4 | 80.1 | |
Illinois | 75.9 | 80.3 | 79.4 | 79.7 | 79.5 | 80.4 | |
Indiana | 75.5 | 73.5 | 73.2 | 73.3 | 73.9 | 74.1 | |
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Iowa | 85.3 | 85.8 | 86.6 | 86.9 | 86.5 | 86.4 | |
Kansas | 76.9 | 77.9 | 79.2 | 77.6 | 78.9 | 79.1 | |
Kentucky | 71.7 | 73.0 | 75.9 | 77.2 | 76.4 | 74.4 | |
Louisiana | 64.1 | 69.4 | 63.9 | 59.5 | 61.3 | 63.5 | |
Maine | 76.3 | 77.6 | 78.6 | 76.3 | 78.5 | 79.1 | 3 |
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Maryland | 79.2 | 79.5 | 79.3 | 79.9 | 80.0 | 80.4 | |
Massachusetts | 75.7 | 79.3 | 78.7 | 79.5 | 80.8 | 81.5 | |
Michigan | 74.0 | 72.5 | 73.0 | 72.2 | 77.0 | 76.3 | |
Minnesota | 84.8 | 84.7 | 85.9 | 86.2 | 86.5 | 86.4 | |
Mississippi | 62.7 | 62.7 | 63.3 | 63.5 | 63.6 | 63.9 | |
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Missouri | 78.3 | 80.4 | 80.6 | 81.0 | 81.9 | 82.4 | |
Montana | 81.0 | 80.4 | 81.5 | 81.9 | 81.5 | 82.0 | |
Nebraska | 85.2 | 87.6 | 87.8 | 87.0 | 86.3 | 83.8 | |
Nevada | 72.3 | 57.4 | 55.8 | 55.8 | 52.0 | 51.3 | |
New Hampshire | 78.2 | 78.7 | 80.1 | 81.1 | 81.7 | 83.4 | |
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New Jersey | 87.0 | 86.3 | 85.1 | 84.8 | 84.4 | 84.6 | |
New Mexico | 63.1 | 67.0 | 65.4 | 67.3 | 59.1 | 66.8 | |
New York | 60.9 | — | 65.3 | 67.4 | 68.8 | 70.8 | |
North Carolina | 70.1 | 71.4 | 72.6 | 71.8 | 68.6 | 72.8 | |
North Dakota | 86.4 | 86.1 | 86.3 | 82.1 | 83.1 | 83.8 | |
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Ohio | 79.0 | 81.3 | 80.2 | 79.2 | 78.7 | 79.0 | |
Oklahoma | 76.0 | 77.0 | 76.9 | 77.8 | 77.8 | 78.0 | |
Oregon | 73.7 | 74.2 | 74.2 | 73.0 | 73.8 | 76.7 | |
Pennsylvania | 81.7 | 82.2 | 82.5 | — | 83.0 | 82.7 | |
Rhode Island | 77.7 | 75.9 | 78.4 | 77.8 | 78.4 | 76.4 | |
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South Carolina | 59.7 | 60.6 | 60.1 | — | 58.9 | — | |
South Dakota | 83.0 | 83.7 | 82.3 | 84.5 | 82.5 | 84.4 | |
Tennessee | 63.4 | 66.1 | 68.5 | 70.6 | 72.6 | 74.9 | |
Texas | 75.5 | 76.7 | 74.0 | 72.5 | 71.9 | 73.1 | |
Utah | 80.2 | 83.0 | 84.4 | 78.6 | 76.6 | 74.3 | |
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Vermont | 83.6 | 85.4 | 86.5 | 82.3 | 88.6 | 89.3 | |
Virginia | 80.6 | 79.3 | 79.6 | 74.5 | 75.5 | 77.0 | |
Washington | 74.2 | 74.6 | 75.0 | 72.9 | 74.8 | 71.9 | |
West Virginia | 75.7 | 76.9 | 77.3 | 76.9 | 78.2 | 77.3 | |
Wisconsin | 85.8 | — | 86.7 | 87.5 | 88.5 | 89.6 | |
Wyoming | 73.9 | 76.0 | 76.7 | 76.1 | 75.8 | 76.0 | |
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Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions |
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
DDESS: DoDs Domestic4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Bureau of Indian Education | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
American Samoa | 81.0 | 80.2 | 77.9 | 81.0 | 84.6 | — | |
Guam | 56.3 | 48.4 | — | — | — | — | |
Northern Marianas Islands | 65.2 | 75.3 | 75.4 | 80.2 | 73.6 | — | |
Puerto Rico | 67.8 | 64.8 | 61.7 | 68.6 | 66.7 | 64.5 | |
U.S. Virgin Islands | 53.5 | — | — | — | 57.7 | 58.2 | |
— Not available. State or jurisdiction did not report diploma count. |
1 Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR) is an estimate of the percentage of an entering freshman class graduating in 4 years. For 2007–08, it equals the total number of diploma recipients in 2007–08 divided by the average membership of the 8th-grade class in 2003–04, the 9th-grade class in 2004–05, and the 10th-grade class in 2005–06. |
2 Reporting states totals include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported all data elements. |
3 Maine reported 1,161 diplomas that were awarded to students attending private high schools that received a majority of their funding from public sources. These 1,161 diplomas were included in Maine and the Reporting States counts but were not included in the AFGR calculations for the state and for the reporting states totals. The diploma counts used to calculate the AFGR for Maine and for the reporting states were 13,189 and 2,964,125, respectively. |
4 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense Overseas Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools and the Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools, respectively. |
NOTE: Ungraded students were allocated to individual grades proportional to each state's enrollment in those grades. |
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1998–99, Version 1c; 1999–2000, Version 1c; 2000–01, Version 1b; 2001–02, Version 1b; 2002–03, Version 1b; and "NCES Common Core of Data State Dropout and Completion Data File," School Year 2005–06, Version 1b; 2006–07, Version 1a; 2007–08, Version 1a. |