Table 4. Public high school number of dropouts, event dropout rate, and enrollment, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2007

Public School Graduates and Dropouts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007–08

NCES 2010-341
June 2010

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Table 4. Public high school number of dropouts, event dropout rate, and enrollment, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2007–08
State or jurisdiction	Number of dropouts¹	Dropout rate¹,²	Enrollment grades 9–12²
Reporting states³	613,379	4.1	14,808,821

Alabama	4,654	2.2	214,626
Alaska	3,040	7.3	41,644
Arizona	21,034	6.7	316,232
Arkansas	6,492	4.7	139,075
California	98,230	5.0	1,954,925

Colorado	15,119	6.4	236,141
Connecticut	4,906	2.8	173,858
Delaware	2,212	6.0	36,598
District of Columbia	1,175	5.5	21,542
Florida	26,635	3.3	796,727

Georgia	20,135	4.3	471,012
Hawaii	2,922	5.4	54,306
Idaho	1,589	2.0	80,409
Illinois	32,638	5.2	630,118
Indiana	5,417	1.7	310,733

Iowa	4,437	2.9	153,575
Kansas	3,497	2.5	141,576
Kentucky	5,516	2.8	196,072
Louisiana	13,580	7.5	181,050
Maine	2,642	4.4	60,207

Maryland	9,816	3.6	269,221
Massachusetts	9,957	3.4	289,035
Michigan	34,702	6.2	555,737
Minnesota	7,826	2.8	277,332
Mississippi	6,399	4.6	139,376

Missouri	13,931	4.9	281,740
Montana	2,435	5.2	46,490
Nebraska	2,244	2.5	91,111
Nevada	6,170	5.1	122,122
New Hampshire	1,987	3.0	65,466

New Jersey	6,320	1.7	382,633
New Mexico	5,132	5.2	98,565
New York	34,069	3.9	874,231
North Carolina	21,477	5.2	412,763
North Dakota	754	2.4	31,539

Ohio	24,980	4.3	580,408
Oklahoma	5,598	3.1	177,748
Oregon	6,676	3.8	175,141
Pennsylvania	15,288	2.6	581,589
Rhode Island	2,559	5.3	47,871

South Carolina	8,013	3.9	206,929
South Dakota	871	2.3	38,182
Tennessee	11,200	3.9	285,856
Texas	51,369	4.0	1,292,825
Utah	6,920	4.2	165,952

Vermont	—	—	—
Virginia	10,135	2.7	379,628
Washington	18,976	5.7	332,831
West Virginia	3,680	4.4	83,481
Wisconsin	6,659	2.3	285,428
Wyoming	1,366	5.0	27,165

Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas⁴	—	—	—
DDESS: DoDs Domestic⁴	—	—	—
Bureau of Indian Education	—	—	—
American Samoa	—	—	—
Guam	—	—	—
Northern Marianas Islands	—	—	—
Puerto Rico	—	—	—
U.S. Virgin Islands	400	7.8	5,133
—Not available. State or jurisdiction did not report dropout counts or reported counts that did not conform to the NCES definition.
¹ Ungraded dropouts are prorated by NCES into grades based on the graded dropout counts to calculate numerators for dropout rates.
² Ungraded student enrollments are prorated by NCES into grades based on graded enrollments to calculate denominators for dropout rates.
³ Reporting states totals include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported all data elements.
⁴ DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense Overseas Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools and the Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools, respectively.
Note: The event dropout rate is defined as the count of dropouts from a given school year divided by the count of student enrollments within the same grade span at the beginning of the same school year.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "NCES Common Core of Data State Dropout and Completion Data File," School Year 2007–08, Version 1a.

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