Table 3. Public school Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate, by year and state or jurisdiction: School years 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, and 2006-07
1 Averaged Freshman Graduation
Rate (AFGR) is an estimate of the percentage of an entering freshman class graduating in 4 years. For
2006-07, it equals the total number of diploma recipients in 2006-07 divided by the average membership of the 8th-grade class in 2002-03, the 9th-grade class in 2003-04, and the 10th-grade class in 2004-05.
2 Reporting states totals include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported data.
3 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependents schools (domestic), 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.