Table 103.

High school graduates, by sex and control of school: Selected years, 1869-70 through 2018-19

School year	High school graduates						Averaged freshman graduation rate for public schools3	Population 17 years old4	Graduates as a ratio of 17-year-old population
	Total1	Sex		Control
		Males	Females	Public2	Private
1	2	3	4	5	6		7	8	9
1869-70	16,000	7,064	8,936	—	—		—	815,000	2.0
1879-80	23,634	10,605	13,029	—	—		—	946,026	2.5
1889-90	43,731	18,549	25,182	21,882	21,849	5	—	1,259,177	3.5
1899-1900	94,883	38,075	56,808	61,737	33,000	5	—	1,489,146	6.4
1909-10	156,429	63,676	92,753	111,363	45,066	5	—	1,786,240	8.8
1919-20	311,266	123,684	187,582	230,902	80,364	5	—	1,855,173	16.8
1929-30	666,904	300,376	366,528	591,719	75,185	5	—	2,295,822	29.0
1939-40	1,221,475	578,718	642,757	1,143,246	78,229	5	—	2,403,074	50.8
1949-50	1,199,700	570,700	629,000	1,063,444	136,256	5	—	2,034,450	59.0
1959-60	1,858,023	895,000	963,000	1,627,050	230,973		—	2,672,000	69.5
1969-70	2,888,639	1,430,000	1,459,000	2,588,639	300,000	5	78.7	3,757,000	76.9
1970-71	2,937,642	1,454,000	1,484,000	2,637,642	300,000	5	78.0	3,872,000	75.9
1971-72	3,001,553	1,487,000	1,515,000	2,699,553	302,000	5	77.4	3,973,000	75.5
1972-73	3,034,822	1,500,000	1,535,000	2,728,822	306,000	5	76.8	4,049,000	75.0
1973-74	3,073,317	1,512,000	1,561,000	2,763,317	310,000	5	75.4	4,132,000	74.4
1974-75	3,132,502	1,542,000	1,591,000	2,822,502	310,000	5	74.9	4,256,000	73.6
1975-76	3,142,120	1,552,000	1,596,000	2,837,129	304,991		74.9	4,272,000	73.6
1976-77	3,139,536	1,548,000	1,604,000	2,837,340	302,196		74.4	4,272,000	73.5
1977-78	3,128,824	1,531,000	1,596,000	2,824,636	304,188		73.2	4,286,000	73.0
1978-79	3,101,152	1,517,000	1,584,000	2,801,152	300,000	5	71.9	4,327,000	71.7
1979-80	3,042,214	1,491,000	1,552,000	2,747,678	294,536		71.5	4,262,000	71.4
1980-81	3,020,285	1,483,000	1,537,000	2,725,285	295,000	5	72.2	4,212,000	71.7
1981-82	2,994,758	1,471,000	1,524,000	2,704,758	290,000	5	72.9	4,134,000	72.4
1982-83	2,887,604	1,437,000	1,451,000	2,597,604	290,000	5	73.8	3,962,000	72.9
1983-84	2,766,797	—	—	2,494,797	272,000	5	74.5	3,784,000	73.1
1984-85	2,676,917	—	—	2,413,917	263,000	5	74.2	3,699,000	72.4
1985-86	2,642,616	—	—	2,382,616	260,000	5	74.3	3,670,000	72.0
1986-87	2,693,803	—	—	2,428,803	265,000	5	74.3	3,754,000	71.8
1987-88	2,773,020	—	—	2,500,020	273,000	5	74.2	3,849,000	72.0
1988-89	2,743,743	—	—	2,458,800	284,943		73.4	3,842,000	71.4
1989-90	2,574,162	—	—	2,320,337	253,825	6	73.6	3,505,000	73.4
1990-91	2,492,988	—	—	2,234,893	258,095		73.7	3,417,913	72.9
1991-92	2,480,399	—	—	2,226,016	254,383	6	74.2	3,398,884	73.0
1992-93	2,480,519	—	—	2,233,241	247,278		73.8	3,449,143	71.9
1993-94	2,463,849	—	—	2,220,849	243,000	5	73.1	3,442,521	71.6
1994-95	2,519,084	—	—	2,273,541	245,543		71.8	3,635,803	69.3
1995-96	2,518,109	—	—	2,273,109	245,000	5	71.0	3,640,132	69.2
1996-97	2,611,988	—	—	2,358,403	253,585		71.3	3,792,207	68.9
1997-98	2,704,050	—	—	2,439,050	265,000	5	71.3	4,008,416	67.5
1998-99	2,758,655	—	—	2,485,630	273,025		71.1	3,917,885	70.4
1999-2000	2,832,844	—	—	2,553,844	279,000	5	71.7	4,056,639	69.8
2000-01	2,847,973	—	—	2,569,200	278,773		71.7	4,016,555	70.9
2001-02	2,906,534	—	—	2,621,534	285,000	5	72.6	4,005,471	72.6
2002-03	3,015,702	—	—	2,719,947	295,755		73.9	4,099,928	73.6
2003-047	3,054,438	—	—	2,753,438	301,000	5	74.3	4,086,606	74.7
2004-05	3,106,499	—	—	2,799,250	307,249		74.7	4,094,794	75.9
2005-06	3,122,544	—	—	2,815,544	307,000	5	73.4	4,177,009	74.8
2006-07	3,198,956	—	—	2,892,351	306,605		73.9	4,274,536	74.8
2007-088	3,321,500	—	—	3,010,900	310,600		75.0	4,414,699	75.2
2008-098	3,329,200	—	—	3,018,700	310,500		75.0	4,315,640	77.1
2009-108	3,294,600	—	—	2,983,400	311,200		—	—	—
2010-118	3,273,300	—	—	2,962,400	310,900		—	—	—
2011-128	3,224,700	—	—	2,912,400	312,300		—	—	—
2012-138	3,210,500	—	—	2,904,800	305,800		—	—	—
2013-148	3,193,500	—	—	2,888,900	304,600		—	—	—
2014-158	3,186,900	—	—	2,892,300	294,600		—	—	—
2015-168	3,217,400	—	—	2,926,100	291,300		—	—	—
2016-178	3,244,900	—	—	2,958,500	286,400		—	—	—
2017-188	3,285,800	—	—	3,004,200	281,700		—	—	—
2018-198	3,410,200	—	—	3,133,100	277,200		—	—	—

—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 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. Averaged freshman graduation rates in this table are based on reported totals of enrollment by grade and high school graduates, rather than on details reported by race/ethnicity.

4 Derived from Current Population Reports, Series P-25. For years 1869-70 through 1989-90, 17-year-old population is an estimate of the October 17-year-old population based on July data. Data for 1990-91 and later years are October resident population estimates prepared by the Census Bureau.

5 Estimated.

6 Projected by private schools.

7 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.

8 Projected by NCES.

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 2007-08; Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1989 through 2007; and Projections of Education Statistics to 2018. U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Population Estimates, retrieved September 17, 2009, from http://www.census.gov/popest/related.html. (This table was prepared September 2009.)