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Table 1. Public high school 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR), by race/ethnicity and selected demographics for the United States, the 50 states, and the District of Columbia: School year 2013–14

        Percent of students      
State Total  American  Indian / Alaska Native  Asian / Pacific Islander     Hispanic     Black      White Economically disadvantaged Limited English proficiency Students with disabilities
United States  82.3 69.61 89.4 76.3 72.5 87.2 74.6 62.6 63.1
     
Alabama  86.3 88 91 85 83.8 87.8 81.5 67 64.4
Alaska  71.1 55 74 70 66 78.5 59.6 32 42
Arizona  75.7 62.7 83 70.3 71.0 82.3 69.9 18 63.3
Arkansas  86.9 86 85 84.5 81.0 89.3 82.7 84 83.1
California  81.0 71.0 91.8 77.0 68.0 88.0 76.0 65.0 62.0
Colorado  77.3 61 84 66.7 69.0 83.2 64.2 58.7 54.6
Connecticut  87.0 85 93 74.0 78.6 92.2 75.9 63 65.2
Delaware  87.0 89 93 84 83 89.5 81.0 77 68
District of Columbia  61.4 <> <> 65 59.7 85 60.1 64 41
Florida  76.1 74 89.2 75.0 64.7 81.7 67.8 55.8 55.1
Georgia  72.5 67 82.8 64.0 65.2 79.7 62.5 43.9 36.5
Hawaii  81.8 72 82.8 76 76 80 77.6 53 59
Idaho2  77.3 56 79 70.3 75 79.2 71.3 75 59
Illinois  86.0 82 94.1 81.3 77.2 90.1 78.5 71.7 71.8
Indiana  87.9 84 89 83.2 75.0 90.4 85.4 80 73.4
Iowa  90.5 78 90 82 79 92.2 84.1 83 76.4
Kansas  85.7 76 90 78.7 77 88.3 76.9 75 76.7
Kentucky  87.5 84 89 84 79.4 88.7 84.0 66 70.8
Louisiana  74.6 80 89 73 67.9 80.3 68.8 50 42.8
Maine  86.5 80 95 72 79 87.0 77.8 72 71
Maryland  86.4 87 94.9 77.5 80.5 91.9 77.8 54 63.5
Massachusetts  86.1 76 91.9 69.2 74.9 90.9 76.0 63.4 69.1
Michigan  78.6 65 88.7 68.8 64.5 82.9 65.6 68.2 55.1
Minnesota  81.2 51 81.7 63.2 60.4 86.3 65.9 63.7 58.4
Mississippi  77.6 66 89 80 71.5 84.0 70.9 67 28.1
Missouri  87.3 83 90 80 74.8 90.4 80.4 64 75.3
Montana  85.4 65 85 81 89 88.3 75.4 59 76
Nebraska  89.7 69 78 82.8 81 92.8 82.4 60 72
Nevada  70.0 52 83 64.6 53.9 76.9 63.6 29 27.6
New Hampshire  88.1 84 90 77 84 88.6 77.2 75 72
New Jersey  88.6 86 96.0 80.6 78.9 93.5 79.6 71.1 76.6
New Mexico  68.5 61 84 66.9 62 74.7 62.3 63.9 56.5
New York  77.8 65 83.6 63.9 64.5 88.0 68.8 37.1 51.8
North Carolina  83.9 79 91 77.4 79.9 87.1 78.0 52 64.4
North Dakota  87.2 66 85 74 76 90.2 72 64 70
Ohio  81.8 74 88 69.2 62.7 86.6 69.2 66 68.4
Oklahoma  82.7 82.4 88 77.6 75.7 84.8 78.2 59 77.2
Oregon  72.0 54 83 65.0 60 74.3 64.2 52 51.1
Pennsylvania  85.3 82 90.4 71.1 72.3 89.6 76.5 64.1 70.9
Rhode Island  80.8 57 88 72 72 85.0 71.1 72 60
South Carolina 80.1 74 88 77 76.0 82.8 72.5 73 43.2
South Dakota  82.7 47 80 71 73 88.5 65 57 59
Tennessee  87.2 81 93 81.4 78.6 90.9 82.2 73 69.0
Texas  88.3 87 94.6 85.5 84.2 93.0 85.2 71.5 77.5
Utah  83.9 66 85 72.9 69 86.6 73.5 62 68.2
Vermont  87.8 ≥50% 90 78 75 88.6 78 69 70
Virginia  85.3 90.5 75.9 78.5 89.2 75.1 48.2 53.2
Washington  78.2 57 84.4 67.5 68.0 80.9 66.8 53.8 55.8
West Virginia  84.5 59 95 89 79 84.7 80.1 89 70.3
Wisconsin  88.6 81 90 78.1 66.1 92.9 77.9 64 69.0
Wyoming  78.6 47 85 72 69 80.9 65 65 62
— Not available.
<> Data were suppressed to protect the confidentiality of individual student data.
≥ Greater than or equal to. The estimate has been top coded to protect the confidentiality of individual student data.
1 The United States 4-year ACGR for American Indian/Alaska Native students was estimated using both the reported 4-year ACGR data from 49 states and the District of Columbia and using imputed data for Virginia.
NOTE: The 4-year ACGR is the number of students who graduate in 4 years with a regular high school diploma divided by the number of students who form the adjusted cohort for the graduating class. From the beginning of 9th grade (or the earliest high school grade), students who are entering that grade for the first time form a cohort that is "adjusted" by adding any students who subsequently transfer into the cohort and subtracting any students who subsequently transfer out, emigrate to another country, or die. To protect the confidentiality of individual student data, ACGRs are shown at varying levels of precision depending on the size of the cohort population for each category cell. There are some differences in how states implemented the requirements for the ACGR, leading to the potential for differences across states in how the rates are calculated. This is particularly applicable to the population of children with disabilities. Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and American Indian includes Alaska Native. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified.
SOURCE: EDFacts Data Groups 695 and 696, School year 2013–14; September 4, 2015.