Table A–3. Summary table of high school dropout, completion, and graduation rates presented in this report

Dropout Rates in the United States: 2005

NCES 2007-059
June 2007

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Table A–3. Summary table of high school dropout, completion, and graduation rates presented in this report

Rate	2005 statistic	Age group	Description	Purpose	GED status

Event dropout rate	3.8	15–24	Percentage of	Indicator of the	Students who get
			high school	annual rate at	an equivalency
			students who have	which U.S. high	certificate do not
			dropped out of	school students	count as dropouts.
			grades 10–12 in	are leaving school
			the past year	with an unsuc–
				cessful outcome

Status dropout rate	9.4	16–24	Percentage of	Indicator of the	Students who
			people who are not	proportion of young	have earned an
			enrolled in high	people who lack	equivalency
			school and who do	a basic high	credential do not
			not have a high	school education	count as dropouts.
			school credential

Status completion rate	87.6	18–24	Percentage of	Indicator of the	People who have
			young adults who	proportion of	earned an
			have left high school	young adults who	equivalency
			and who hold a high	have a basic high	credential count
			school credential	school education	as completers.

Averaged freshman	75.0	Not	Percentage of	Indicator of on–	High school
graduation rate		applicable	public high school	time graduation	equivalency
			students who	from public schools	credentials are
			graduate with a		not counted as
			regular diploma		“graduation.” Not
			4 years after		a cohort on–time
			starting 9th grade		graduation statistic.