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.)