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Table 107. | Public high school graduates and dropouts, by race/ethnicity and state or jurisdiction: 2005–06 |
State or other jurisdiction | High school graduates, by race/ethnicity, 2005–061 | Event dropout rates (percent of 9th- to 12th-graders who dropped out) during 2005–06, by race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
Total | White | Black | Hispanic | Asian/ Pacific Islander | American Indian/ Alaska Native | Total | White | Black | Hispanic | Asian/ Pacific Islander | American Indian/ Alaska Native | |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
United States2 | 2,815,220 | 1,852,980 | 393,994 | 388,088 | 150,900 | 29,258 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 6.1 | 6.0 | 2.4 | 7.2 |
Alabama | 37,918 | 24,680 | 12,026 | 478 | 391 | 343 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 1.3 |
Alaska | 7,361 | 4,843 | 302 | 246 | 528 | 1,442 | 8.0 | 6.2 | 10.0 | 9.7 | 6.9 | 11.7 |
Arizona | 54,091 | 30,551 | 2,703 | 16,369 | 1,689 | 2,779 | 6.4 | 4.9 | 7.0 | 8.2 | 3.7 | 10.3 |
Arkansas | 28,790 | 21,017 | 5,951 | 1,183 | 467 | 172 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 2.5 |
California | 343,515 | 138,584 | 25,355 | 124,409 | 52,334 | 2,833 | 3.7 | 2.3 | 6.5 | 4.8 | 1.8 | 4.3 |
Colorado | 44,424 | 32,553 | 2,129 | 7,727 | 1,617 | 398 | 7.8 | 4.7 | 12.5 | 15.8 | 4.8 | 13.5 |
Connecticut | 36,222 | 27,047 | 4,184 | 3,623 | 1,251 | 117 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 4.4 | 0.7 | 2.2 |
Delaware | 7,275 | 4,646 | 2,002 | 361 | 246 | 20 | 5.5 | 4.2 | 7.3 | 9.8 | 2.9 | 6.8 |
District of Columbia3 | 3,150 | — | — | — | — | — | ‡ | 4.0 | ‡ | ‡ | 7.4 | ‡ |
Florida | 134,686 | 76,980 | 26,759 | 26,495 | 4,018 | 434 | 4.1 | 2.9 | 5.8 | 5.0 | 1.7 | 3.7 |
Georgia | 73,498 | 42,959 | 24,829 | 3,003 | 2,625 | 82 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 5.6 | 7.8 | 2.1 | 5.4 |
Hawaii | 10,922 | 2,068 | 201 | 429 | 8,197 | 27 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 4.5 | 6.9 |
Idaho | 16,096 | 14,192 | 91 | 1,359 | 251 | 203 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 4.8 | 6.4 | 1.2 | 5.6 |
Illinois | 126,817 | 85,503 | 19,482 | 15,764 | 5,816 | 252 | 3.9 | 2.2 | 7.7 | 6.7 | 1.7 | 4.2 |
Indiana | 57,920 | 49,885 | 5,140 | 1,953 | 804 | 138 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 1.7 | 3.4 |
Iowa | 33,693 | 30,651 | 1,091 | 1,100 | 695 | 156 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 1.8 | 6.0 |
Kansas | 29,818 | 24,517 | 2,152 | 2,058 | 772 | 319 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 2.4 | 3.7 |
Kentucky | 38,449 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.3 | — | — | — | — | — |
Louisiana | 33,275 | 19,483 | 12,396 | 533 | 626 | 237 | 8.4 | 5.7 | 12.0 | 9.8 | 5.6 | 8.6 |
Maine | 12,950 | 12,359 | 219 | 107 | 196 | 69 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 8.1 | 5.7 | 10.1 |
Maryland | 55,536 | 30,672 | 18,558 | 2,790 | 3,338 | 178 | 3.9 | — | — | — | — | — |
Massachusetts | 61,272 | 48,093 | 4,765 | 5,358 | 2,905 | 151 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 6.6 | 7.9 | 2.7 | 6.5 |
Michigan | 102,296 | 81,795 | 14,249 | 2,727 | 2,676 | 849 | 3.5 | — | — | — | — | — |
Minnesota | 58,898 | 50,551 | 2,973 | 1,501 | 3,095 | 778 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 8.6 | 10.3 | 3.5 | 11.8 |
Mississippi | 23,848 | 12,278 | 11,161 | 186 | 194 | 29 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 1.9 | 7.4 |
Missouri | 58,417 | 47,534 | 8,401 | 1,257 | 1,028 | 197 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 7.9 | 6.3 | 2.0 | 6.5 |
Montana | 10,283 | 9,071 | 44 | 201 | 153 | 814 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 6.2 | 5.4 | 1.2 | 8.5 |
Nebraska | 19,764 | 16,931 | 1,032 | 1,236 | 352 | 213 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 8.0 | 6.4 | 2.7 | 7.3 |
Nevada | 16,455 | 9,902 | 1,385 | 3,421 | 1,516 | 231 | 7.7 | 6.3 | 9.4 | 10.0 | 5.4 | 9.0 |
New Hampshire | 13,988 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 6.6 | 1.7 | 4.9 |
New Jersey | 90,049 | 56,056 | 13,916 | 12,775 | 7,088 | 214 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 2.8 |
New Mexico | 17,822 | 6,901 | 425 | 8,197 | 270 | 2,029 | 5.5 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 5.9 | 3.3 | 6.6 |
New York | 161,817 | 102,161 | 24,840 | 21,824 | 12,453 | 539 | 4.4 | 2.4 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 3.4 | 6.9 |
North Carolina | 76,710 | — | — | — | — | — | 4.0 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 1.4 | 8.6 |
North Dakota | 7,192 | 6,637 | 62 | 63 | 56 | 374 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 5.0 | 1.6 | 7.3 |
Ohio | 117,356 | 98,744 | 14,919 | 1,922 | 1,641 | 130 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 9.8 | 8.3 | 1.8 | 7.9 |
Oklahoma | 36,497 | 23,572 | 3,568 | 2,131 | 732 | 6,494 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 4.7 | 6.1 | 1.8 | 3.8 |
Oregon | 32,394 | 26,248 | 746 | 3,139 | 1,664 | 597 | 4.6 | — | — | — | — | — |
Pennsylvania3 | 127,830 | — | — | — | — | — | 2.7 | 1.8 | 6.0 | 7.1 | 2.3 | 3.9 |
Rhode Island | 10,108 | 7,666 | 819 | 1,292 | 277 | 54 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 5.7 | 7.6 | 4.8 | 7.6 |
South Carolina3 | 34,970 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
South Dakota | 8,589 | 7,713 | 103 | 109 | 103 | 561 | 4.4 | 2.8 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 5.0 | 20.0 |
Tennessee | 50,880 | 37,896 | 11,086 | 995 | 829 | 74 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 2.0 | 3.9 |
Texas | 240,485 | 112,994 | 32,183 | 85,455 | 9,037 | 816 | 4.3 | 2.3 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 1.6 | 4.3 |
Utah | 29,012 | 25,575 | 231 | 2,021 | 844 | 341 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 5.2 | 7.2 | 2.8 | 7.6 |
Vermont | 6,779 | 6,451 | 87 | 72 | 118 | 51 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ |
Virginia | 69,597 | 46,010 | 15,774 | 3,537 | 4,078 | 198 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 3.8 | 6.4 | 1.6 | 3.8 |
Washington | 60,213 | 45,814 | 2,673 | 5,203 | 5,353 | 1,170 | 5.5 | 4.7 | 10.2 | 8.8 | 4.3 | 10.5 |
West Virginia | 16,763 | 15,856 | 630 | 119 | 137 | 21 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 0.3 | 7.9 |
Wisconsin | 63,003 | 53,607 | 4,040 | 2,430 | 2,150 | 776 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 7.7 | 4.9 | 2.2 | 5.9 |
Wyoming | 5,527 | 4,897 | 64 | 341 | 65 | 160 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 8.9 | 10.4 | 3.8 | 21.2 |
Bureau of Indian Education | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
DoD, overseas | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
DoD, domestic | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Other jurisdictions | ||||||||||||
American Samoa | 879 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 879 | 0 | 2.5 | † | † | † | 2.5 | † |
Guam | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Northern Marianas | 670 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 662 | 0 | 3.5 | 5.6 | † | † | — | † |
Puerto Rico | 31,896 | 0 | 0 | 31,896 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | † | † | 0.7 | † | † |
U.S. Virgin Islands | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8.2 | 18.1 | 7.3 | 14.3 | 28.6 | 0.0 |
— Not available. † Not applicable. ‡ Reporting standards not met. 1 Data differ slightly from figures reported in other tables due to varying reporting practices for racial/ethnic survey data. 2 High school graduate counts include estimates for nonreporting states, based on 2005 12th-grade enrollment racial/ethnic distribution reported by state. Event dropout rate totals are totals for reporting states only. 3 Projected high school graduates from NCES 2008-078, Projections of Education Statistics to 2017. NOTE: Includes only graduates for whom race/ethnicity was reported. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Event dropout rates measure the percentage of public school students in grades 9 through 12 who dropped out of school between one October and the next. DoD = Department of Defense. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2005–06 and 2006–07, and "State-Level Public School Dropouts," 2005–06; and unpublished tabulations. (This table was prepared January 2009.) |