Table 4.Public high school number of dropouts, event dropout rate, and enrollment for grades 9–12, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2009

NCES 2013-309
January 2013

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

Table 4.	Public high school number of dropouts, event dropout rate, and enrollment for grades 9–12, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2009–10

State or jurisdiction	Number of dropouts¹	Event dropout rate^1,2	Enrollment grades 9–12²
Total³	514,238	3.4	14,931,370
Alabama	3,902	1.8	219,495
Alaska	2,820	6.9	40,837
Arizona	24,865	7.8	317,447
Arkansas	4,892	3.6	136,347
California	92,874	4.6	1,999,096
Colorado	12,891	5.3	240,990
Connecticut	5,194	3.0	174,020
Delaware	1,519	3.9	39,091
District of Columbia⁴	1,240	7.0	17,712
Florida	18,031	2.3	783,621
Georgia	17,769	3.8	472,934
Hawaii	2,736	5.2	52,685
Idaho	1,133	1.4	81,571
Illinois	18,540	2.9	640,462
Indiana	5,013	1.6	316,062
Iowa	5,099	3.4	150,509
Kansas	2,973	2.1	141,562
Kentucky	6,222	3.2	195,622
Louisiana	8,704	4.8	181,032
Maine	2,564	4.2	60,579
Maryland	7,082	2.7	266,627
Massachusetts	8,085	2.8	290,752
Michigan	22,983	4.3	534,369
Minnesota	4,338	1.6	272,392
Mississippi	10,414	7.4	139,786
Missouri	9,842	3.5	279,900
Montana	1,901	4.3	43,939
Nebraska	1,921	2.2	88,508
Nevada	5,544	4.5	123,558
New Hampshire	766	1.2	64,372
New Jersey	7,044	1.6	428,580
New Mexico	6,809	6.9	99,076
New York	31,867	3.6	895,597
North Carolina	20,195	4.7	429,752
North Dakota	680	2.2	30,497
Ohio	22,406	4.2	538,951
Oklahoma	4,285	2.4	177,823
Oregon	5,986	3.4	178,388
Pennsylvania	12,271	2.1	585,168
Rhode Island	2,166	4.6	46,934
South Carolina	6,269	3.0	211,019
South Dakota	1,000	2.6	37,968
Tennessee	7,582	2.7	285,881
Texas	36,070	2.7	1,329,862
Utah	4,133	2.6	161,457
Vermont	721	2.4	29,581
Virginia	7,999	2.1	381,320
Washington	13,960	4.2	329,960
West Virginia	3,294	4.0	82,349
Wisconsin	6,064	2.2	279,000
Wyoming	1,580	6.0	26,330

Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas⁵	—	—	—
DDESS: DoDs Domestic⁵	—	—	—
Bureau of Indian Education	—	—	—
American Samoa	—	—	—
Guam	—	—	—
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands	—	—	—
Puerto Rico	‡	‡	‡
U.S. Virgin Islands	281	5.5	5,084

— Not available. State or jurisdiction did not report dropout counts or reported counts.
‡ Reporting standards not met. NCES suppressed dropout data for Puerto Rico due to low dropout counts that were unconfirmed by Puerto Rico.
¹ Ungraded dropouts are prorated by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) into grades 9–12 based on the graded dropout counts to calculate numerators for dropout rates.
² Ungraded student enrollments are prorated by NCES into grades 9–12 based on graded enrollments to calculate denominators for dropout rates.
³ Totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
⁴ Data were imputed based on prior year rates.
⁵ DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense Overseas Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools and the Department of Defense
NOTE: The event dropout rate is defined as the count of dropouts from a given school year divided by the count of student enrollments within the same grade span at the beginning of the same school year.
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.

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