Table 1.Public high school number of graduates, Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and estimated first-time 9th-graders, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2009

Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009–10

NCES 2013-309
January 2013

Table 1.	Public high school number of graduates, Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and estimated first-time 9th-graders, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2009–10

State or jurisdiction	2009–10 school year		Estimated first-time 9th-graders in 2006–07¹
State or jurisdiction	Number of graduates	AFGR²	Average	8th-grade enrollment base, 2005–06	9th-grade enrollment base, 2006–07	10th-grade enrollment base, 2007–08
Total³	3,128,022	78.2	3,998,564	3,827,519	4,284,842	3,881,914
Alabama	43,166	71.8	60,080	59,794	64,943	55,502
Alaska	8,245	75.5	10,923	10,793	11,337	10,639
Arizona	61,145	74.7	81,823	80,697	84,103	80,669
Arkansas	28,276	75.0	37,716	37,338	38,983	36,826
California	404,987	78.2	517,981	493,557	546,097	514,289
Colorado	49,321	79.8	61,795	59,929	64,754	60,702
Connecticut	34,495⁴	75.1 ⁴	45,928	44,680	48,579	44,526
Delaware	8,133	75.5	10,768	10,492	11,785	10,028
District of Columbia	3,602	59.9	6,009	5,630	6,996	5,402
Florida	156,130	70.8	220,608	208,413	240,337	213,074
Georgia	91,561	69.9	131,005	123,678	145,883	123,454
Hawaii	10,998	75.4	14,591	13,710	16,435	13,628
Idaho	17,793	84.0	21,177	20,674	21,843	21,013
Illinois	139,035	81.9	169,682	160,946	180,641	167,459
Indiana	64,551	77.2	83,597	82,021	86,804	81,967
Iowa	34,462	87.9	39,192	38,145	40,126	39,306
Kansas	31,642	84.5	37,428	37,009	38,787	36,488
Kentucky	42,664	79.9	53,378	51,085	57,671	51,379
Louisiana	36,573	68.8	53,177	53,832	58,841	46,857
Maine	14,069	82.8	16,983 ⁵	16,692	16,000	16,839
Maryland	59,078	82.2	71,909	68,400	78,874	68,452
Massachusetts	64,462	82.6	78,013	76,223	82,368	75,448
Michigan	110,682	75.9	145,808	137,098	155,211	145,116
Minnesota	59,667	88.2	67,619	65,437	68,807	68,614
Mississippi	25,478	63.8	39,954	39,855	42,894	37,113
Missouri	63,994	83.7	76,457	74,436	81,671	73,264
Montana	10,075	81.9	12,304	12,073	12,862	11,976
Nebraska	19,370	83.8	23,118	21,998	24,459	22,898
Nevada	20,956	57.8	36,245	33,584	41,379	33,772
New Hampshire	15,034	86.3	17,430	17,089	18,280	16,922
New Jersey	96,225	87.2	110,405	108,356	113,445	109,415
New Mexico	18,595	67.3	27,614	25,987	29,895	26,961
New York	183,826	76.0	241,984	224,769	261,915	239,269
North Carolina	88,704	76.9	115,374	111,894	128,905	105,322
North Dakota	7,155	88.4	8,097	7,993	8,283	8,014
Ohio	123,437	81.4	151,674	144,869	164,806	145,347
Oklahoma	38,503	78.5	49,032	48,100	51,390	47,606
Oregon	34,671	76.3	45,425	44,135	46,247	45,892
Pennsylvania	131,182	84.1	156,013	149,319	165,393	153,327
Rhode Island	9,908	76.4	12,966	12,470	13,935	12,492
South Carolina	40,438	68.2	59,329	55,701	66,824	55,462
South Dakota	8,162	81.8	9,975	9,576	10,371	9,977
Tennessee	62,408	80.4	77,610	74,064	83,596	75,170
Texas	280,894	78.9	355,818	335,824	399,056	332,573
Utah	31,481	78.6	40,035	38,463	39,106	42,535
Vermont	7,199	91.4	7,874	7,568	8,168	7,887
Virginia	81,511	81.2	100,422	95,716	108,680	96,869
Washington	66,046	77.2	85,554	81,440	90,280	84,942
West Virginia	17,651	78.3	22,555	22,163	24,331	21,170
Wisconsin	64,687	91.1	71,018	66,985	75,282	70,788
Wyoming	5,695	80.3	7,092	6,819	7,184	7,274

Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas⁶	—	—	—	4,403	4,056	3,494
DDESS: DoDs Domestic⁶	—	—	—	4,385	—	—
Bureau of Indian Education	—	—	—	1,236	1,315	—
American Samoa	—	—	—	1,377	910	727
Guam	—	—	—	2,343	—	—
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands	—	—	—	815	987	818
Puerto Rico	25,514	60.2	42,410	44,365	42,651	40,215
U.S. Virgin Islands	958	65.5	1,462	1,371	1,834	1,180

— Not available. State or jurisdiction did not report diploma count.
¹ The enrollment base for estimated first-time 9th-graders for the rate was estimated as the average of student membership in grades 8, 9, and 10 in 3 consecutive years.
² AFGR is an estimate of the percentage of an entering freshman class graduating in 4 years. For 2009–10, it equals the total number of diploma recipients in 2009–10 divided by the average membership of the 8th-grade class in 2005–06, the 9th-grade class in 2006–07, and the 10th-grade class in 2007–08.
³ Totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
⁴ Data were imputed based on prior year rates.
⁵ Maine's estimated first-time 9th graders were edited to include 1,419 9th grade, publicly-funded private school students that were not reported as 9th graders on the 2006–07 Common Core of Data (CCD) but were reported as 10th graders in 2007–08 and as diploma recipients in 2009–10.
⁶ 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), "NCES Common Core of Data State Dropout and Completion Data File," School Year 2009–10, Version 1a; "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/ Secondary Education," 2005–06, Version 1b; 2006–07, Version 1c; and 2007–08, Version 1b.

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