Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994
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State 1989-91 1992-94
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Total 85.0 86.1
Alaska 88.7 89.8
Alabama 82.2 83.3
Arkansas 87.1 87.5
Arizona 83.2 83.7
California 76.7 78.9
Colorado 87.8 87.6
Connecticut 89.7 92.6
Washington, D.C. 82.0 86.4
Delaware 85.9 93.7
Florida 83.2 83.2
Georgia 85.5 79.4
Hawaii 92.9 90.7
Iowa 94.5 94.2
Idaho 83.1 86.7
Illinois 85.4 86.7
Indiana 88.9 88.4
Kansas 92.5 92.2
Kentucky 81.6 83.3
Louisiana 80.6 83.9
Massachusetts 89.6 91.2
Maryland 87.3 92.9
Maine 90.5 94.0
Michigan 86.3 89.2
Minnesota 92.0 93.2
Missouri 88.0 90.0
Mississippi 84.0 88.8
Montana 92.7 91.6
North Carolina 82.8 85.3
North Dakota 95.6 96.6
Nebraska 90.8 95.9
New Hampshire 87.3 86.6
New Jersey 90.0 91.0
New Mexico 84.7 83.7
Nevada 82.6 83.4
New York 87.7 87.5
Ohio 89.3 89.6
Oklahoma 87.1 83.1
Oregon 89.2 82.9
Pennsylvania 90.2 89.7
Rhode Island 87.4 90.7
South Carolina 82.6 87.0
South Dakota 87.6 93.2
Tennessee 76.5 82.3
Texas 78.4 80.5
Utah 93.9 93.9
Virginia 87.0 88.6
Vermont 85.9 89.8
Washington 87.4 87.3
Wisconsin 93.4 93.4
West Virginia 82.7 85.6
Wyoming 91.4 91.6
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1/Numbers on this table reflect 3-year averages.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October (various
years), unpublished data.
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