| Table 5. | Public high school numbers of dropouts and event dropout rates for grades 9–12, by grade and state or jurisdiction: School year 2009–10 |
| State or jurisdiction | Grade 91 | Grade 101 | Grade 111 | Grade 121 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of dropouts |
Event dropout rate |
Number of dropouts |
Event dropout rate |
Number of dropouts |
Event dropout rate |
Number of dropouts |
Event dropout rate |
|
| Total2 | 104,756 | 2.6 | 113,370 | 3 | 117,536 | 3.3 | 175,806 | 5.1 |
| Alabama | 864 | 1.4 | 1,128 | 2.0 | 1,048 | 2.1 | 862 | 1.8 |
| Alaska | 404 | 4.0 | 551 | 5.5 | 1,014 | 9.3 | 851 | 8.7 |
| Arizona | 4,207 | 5.1 | 4,594 | 5.7 | 5,269 | 7.0 | 10,795 | 13.6 |
| Arkansas | 720 | 1.9 | 1,130 | 3.2 | 1,427 | 4.4 | 1,613 | 5.3 |
| California | 13,849 | 2.6 | 15,518 | 3.1 | 20,625 | 4.2 | 42,587 | 8.9 |
| Colorado | 1,957 | 3.1 | 2,216 | 3.7 | 3,045 | 5.3 | 5,673 | 9.7 |
| Connecticut | 1,316 | 2.8 | 1,127 | 2.6 | 1,452 | 3.4 | 1,299 | 3.2 |
| Delaware | 546 | 4.7 | 386 | 3.7 | 299 | 3.4 | 288 | 3.5 |
| District of Columbia3 | 501 | 8.1 | 262 | 5.9 | 153 | 4.2 | 133 | 4.0 |
| Florida | 4,189 | 1.9 | 4,348 | 2.2 | 4,678 | 2.4 | 4,816 | 2.8 |
| Georgia | 5,800 | 4.0 | 5,095 | 4.2 | 4,074 | 3.8 | 2,800 | 2.9 |
| Hawaii | 562 | 3.7 | 816 | 5.7 | 726 | 5.8 | 632 | 6.0 |
| Idaho | 211 | 1.0 | 235 | 1.1 | 301 | 1.5 | 386 | 2.0 |
| Illinois | 3,482 | 2.0 | 5,287 | 3.1 | 3,970 | 2.7 | 5,801 | 4.0 |
| Indiana | 373 | 0.4 | 945 | 1.2 | 1,349 | 1.7 | 2,346 | 3.2 |
| Iowa | 363 | 1.0 | 713 | 1.9 | 1,276 | 3.5 | 2,747 | 7.1 |
| Kansas | 442 | 1.2 | 661 | 1.9 | 765 | 2.3 | 1,105 | 3.3 |
| Kentucky | 1,076 | 2.0 | 1,769 | 3.5 | 1,762 | 3.8 | 1,615 | 3.7 |
| Louisiana | 3,229 | 5.7 | 1,920 | 4.2 | 1,663 | 4.1 | 1,892 | 4.9 |
| Maine | 252 | 1.7 | 349 | 2.3 | 703 | 4.8 | 1,260 | 8.3 |
| Maryland | 1,998 | 2.7 | 2,029 | 3.0 | 1,686 | 2.7 | 1,369 | 2.2 |
| Massachusetts | 2,356 | 3.0 | 2,045 | 2.8 | 1,837 | 2.6 | 1,847 | 2.7 |
| Michigan | 4,305 | 3.1 | 6,661 | 4.9 | 5,318 | 4.2 | 6,699 | 5.3 |
| Minnesota | 337 | 0.5 | 453 | 0.7 | 796 | 1.2 | 2,752 | 3.7 |
| Mississippi | 2,399 | 6.0 | 2,651 | 7.3 | 2,339 | 7.3 | 2,023 | 7.0 |
| Missouri | 2,139 | 2.9 | 2,009 | 2.9 | 2,449 | 3.6 | 3,245 | 4.8 |
| Montana | 340 | 2.9 | 435 | 3.9 | 527 | 4.9 | 599 | 5.7 |
| Nebraska | 186 | 0.8 | 372 | 1.7 | 538 | 2.5 | 825 | 3.7 |
| Nevada | 790 | 2.3 | 1,389 | 4.0 | 1,294 | 4.4 | 2,071 | 8.0 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | # | 6 | # | 90 | 0.6 | 667 | 4.3 |
| New Jersey | 1,696 | 1.6 | 1,667 | 1.6 | 1,522 | 1.5 | 1,594 | 1.6 |
| New Mexico | 2,229 | 7.5 | 2,075 | 7.8 | 1,484 | 6.6 | 1,021 | 5.1 |
| New York | 7,354 | 3.1 | 8,222 | 3.5 | 6,674 | 3.4 | 8,931 | 4.7 |
| North Carolina | 6,553 | 5.1 | 5,535 | 4.9 | 4,769 | 4.8 | 3,338 | 3.8 |
| North Dakota | 40 | 0.5 | 174 | 2.3 | 207 | 2.7 | 259 | 3.4 |
| Ohio | 6,968 | 4.4 | 3,853 | 2.8 | 4,574 | 3.7 | 7,011 | 5.9 |
| Oklahoma | 949 | 1.9 | 1,062 | 2.3 | 1,188 | 2.8 | 1,086 | 2.7 |
| Oregon | 465 | 1.0 | 771 | 1.7 | 1,451 | 3.3 | 3,299 | 7.2 |
| Pennsylvania | 1,643 | 1.1 | 3,029 | 2.0 | 3,268 | 2.3 | 4,302 | 3.1 |
| Rhode Island | 573 | 4.4 | 613 | 5.0 | 509 | 4.7 | 471 | 4.4 |
| South Carolina | 1,691 | 2.7 | 1,811 | 3.3 | 1,547 | 3.2 | 1,220 | 2.7 |
| South Dakota | 184 | 1.8 | 267 | 2.7 | 258 | 2.8 | 291 | 3.3 |
| Tennessee | 1,370 | 1.8 | 1,579 | 2.1 | 1,790 | 2.6 | 2,843 | 4.3 |
| Texas | 6,945 | 1.8 | 8,253 | 2.5 | 6,824 | 2.2 | 14,048 | 4.8 |
| Utah | 207 | 0.5 | 555 | 1.4 | 927 | 2.3 | 2,444 | 6.1 |
| Vermont | 76 | 1.0 | 180 | 2.4 | 215 | 3.0 | 250 | 3.4 |
| Virginia | 1,741 | 1.7 | 1,857 | 1.9 | 1,934 | 2.1 | 2,467 | 2.8 |
| Washington | 2,881 | 3.4 | 2,792 | 3.4 | 3,472 | 4.4 | 4,815 | 5.8 |
| West Virginia | 809 | 3.4 | 848 | 4.1 | 839 | 4.4 | 798 | 4.3 |
| Wisconsin | 971 | 1.4 | 611 | 0.9 | 1,222 | 1.7 | 3,260 | 4.6 |
| Wyoming | 215 | 3.2 | 516 | 7.3 | 389 | 6.1 | 460 | 7.5 |
| 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Puerto Rico | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 122 | 7.2 | 68 | 5.5 | 53 | 4.7 | 38 | 3.7 |
| # Rounds to zero. | ||||||||
| 1 Ungraded student enrollment counts and ungraded dropout counts are not factored into these individual grade-level dropout rates. | ||||||||
| 2 Totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia. | ||||||||
| 3 Data were imputed based on prior year rates. | ||||||||
| 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: 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 grad 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. |
