Table 104.

High school graduates, by sex and control of school: Selected years, 1869–70 through 2008–09

School year	High school graduates (in thousands)					Averaged freshman graduation rate for public schools4
	Total1	Sex		Control
		Males	Females	Public2	Private3
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1869–70	16	7	9	—	—	—
1879–80	24	11	13	—	—	—
1889–90	44	19	25	22	22	—
1899–1900	95	38	57	62	33	—
1909–10	156	64	93	111	45	—
1919–20	311	124	188	231	80	—
1929–30	667	300	367	592	75	—
1939–40	1,221	579	643	1,143	78	—
1949–50	1,200	571	629	1,063	136	—
1959–60	1,858	895	963	1,627	231	—
1960–61	1,964	955	1,009	1,725	239	—
1961–62	1,918	938	980	1,678	240	—
1962–63	1,943	956	987	1,710	233	—
1963–64	2,283	1,120	1,163	2,008	275	—
1964–65	2,658	1,311	1,347	2,360	298	—
1965–66	2,665	1,323	1,342	2,367	298	—
1966–67	2,672	1,328	1,344	2,374	298	—
1967–68	2,695	1,338	1,357	2,395	300	—
1968–69	2,822	1,399	1,423	2,522	300	—
1969–70	2,889	1,430	1,459	2,589	300	78.7
1970–71	2,938	1,454	1,484	2,638	300	78.0
1971–72	3,002	1,487	1,515	2,700	302	77.4
1972–73	3,035	1,500	1,535	2,729	306	76.8
1973–74	3,073	1,512	1,561	2,763	310	75.4
1974–75	3,133	1,542	1,591	2,823	310	74.9
1975–76	3,148	1,552	1,596	2,837	311	74.9
1976–77	3,152	1,548	1,604	2,837	315	74.4
1977–78	3,127	1,531	1,596	2,825	302	73.2
1978–79	3,101	1,517	1,584	2,801	300	71.9
1979–80	3,043	1,491	1,552	2,748	295	71.5
1980–81	3,020	1,483	1,537	2,725	295	72.2
1981–82	2,995	1,471	1,524	2,705	290	72.9
1982–83	2,888	1,437	1,451	2,598	290	73.8
1983–84	2,767	—	—	2,495	272	74.5
1984–85	2,677	—	—	2,414	263	74.2
1985–86	2,643	—	—	2,383	260	74.3
1986–87	2,694	—	—	2,429	265	74.3
1987–88	2,773	—	—	2,500	273	74.2
1988–89	2,744	—	—	2,459	285	73.4
1989–90	2,589	—	—	2,320	269	73.6
1990–91	2,493	—	—	2,235	258	73.7
1991–92	2,478	—	—	2,226	252	74.2
1992–93	2,480	—	—	2,233	247	73.8
1993–94	2,464	—	—	2,221	243	73.1
1994–95	2,520	—	—	2,274	246	71.8
1995–96	2,518	—	—	2,273	245	71.0
1996–97	2,612	—	—	2,358	254	71.3
1997–98	2,704	—	—	2,439	265	71.3
1998–99	2,759	—	—	2,486	273	71.1
1999–2000	2,833	—	—	2,554	279	71.7
2000–01	2,848	—	—	2,569	279	71.7
2001–02	2,907	—	—	2,622	285	72.6
2002–03	3,016	—	—	2,720	296	73.9
2003–045,6	3,064	—	—	2,753	301	74.3
2004–05	3,105	—	—	2,799	307	74.7
2005–066	3,128	—	—	2,816	312	73.4
2006–077	3,262	—	—	2,950	312	75.4
2007–087	3,346	—	—	3,026	320	75.4
2008–097	3,328	—	—	3,011	317	74.8

— Not available. 1 Includes graduates of public and private schools. 2 Data for 1929–30 and preceding years are from Statistics of Public High Schools and exclude graduates from high schools that failed to report to the Office of Education. 3 For most years, private school data have been estimated based on periodic private school surveys. 4 The averaged freshman graduation rate provides an estimate of the percentage of students who receive a regular diploma within 4 years of entering ninth grade. The rate uses aggregate student enrollment data to estimate the size of an incoming freshman class and aggregate counts of the number of diplomas awarded 4 years later. 5 Includes estimates for New York and Wisconsin. Without estimates for these two states, the averaged freshman graduation rate for the remaining 48 states and the District of Columbia is 75.0 percent. 6 Private school data are projected. 7 Projected. NOTE: Includes graduates of regular day school programs. Excludes graduates of other programs, when separately reported, and recipients of high school equivalency certificates. Some data have been revised from previously published figures. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1870 through 1910; Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1919–20 through 1949–50; Statistics of State School Systems, 1951–52 through 1957–58; Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary School Systems, 1958–59 through 1980–81; Statistics of Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Schools, 1959 through 1980; Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1981–82 through 2006–07; Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1989 through 2005; and Projections of Education Statistics to 2017. (This table was prepared January 2009.)