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Table 5.  Public high school number of dropouts, event dropout rate, and enrollment, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2007–08
 
Grade 91 Grade 101 Grade 111 Grade 121
State or jurisdiction Number of dropouts Dropout rate   Number of dropouts Dropout rate   Number of dropouts Dropout rate   Number of dropouts Dropout rate
Reporting states2 126,057 3.0   135,244 3.6   139,144 4.0   203,630 6.1
                       
Alabama  1,256 1.9   1,335 2.4   1,221 2.5   842 1.8
Alaska  455 4.3   607 5.8   940 9.0   1,038 10.4
Arizona  3,538 4.2   4,141 5.1   5,108 6.8   8,247 10.8
Arkansas  1,076 2.8   1,561 4.2   1,922 5.7   1,933 6.3
California  13,316 2.5   15,150 3.0   19,468 4.1   50,129 11.0
                       
Colorado  2,469 3.9   2,915 4.8   4,067 7.2   5,668 10.2
Connecticut  1,233 2.6   1,271 2.9   1,296 3.1   1,106 2.7
Delaware  710 6.3   622 6.4   422 5.2   458 6.2
District of Columbia  436 5.7   314 5.9   226 5.2   199 4.7
Florida  6,393 2.8   6,212 3.0   5,954 3.1   5,882 3.6
                       
Georgia  6,126 4.2   5,419 4.4   4,416 4.2   3,001 3.1
Hawaii  593 3.7   847 6.2   764 5.8   718 6.4
Idaho  237 1.1   373 1.8   445 2.3   534 2.9
Illinois  6,427 3.6   7,143 4.3   6,255 4.2   8,032 5.7
Indiana  182 0.2   660 0.8   1,458 1.9   3,117 4.4
                       
Iowa  291 0.8   630 1.6   1,212 3.2   2,304 6.0
Kansas  453 1.2   801 2.2   1,016 3.0   1,227 3.7
Kentucky  1,248 2.2   1,704 3.3   1,502 3.2   1,062 2.5
Louisiana  4,931 8.9   3,107 6.6   2,666 6.5   2,876 7.6
Maine  213 1.4   400 2.6   704 4.7   1,325 8.8
                       
Maryland  3,066 4.0   2,547 3.7   2,083 3.3   2,120 3.4
Massachusetts  2,400 3.1   2,663 3.6   2,374 3.4   2,520 3.7
Michigan  7,061 4.7   9,476 6.5   8,034 6.1   10,131 7.9
Minnesota  604 0.9   1,064 1.6   1,806 2.7   4,352 5.9
Mississippi  1,497 3.5   1,631 4.4   1,450 4.6   1,139 4.0
                       
Missouri  4,110 5.3   3,352 4.6   3,357 5.0   3,112 4.8
Montana  375 3.1   613 5.1   700 6.2   726 6.6
Nebraska  321 1.3   510 2.2   606 2.8   807 3.6
Nevada  1,857 4.6   1,582 4.7   1,085 4.2   1,646 7.5
New Hampshire  31 0.2   226 1.4   599 3.7   1,131 7.1
                       
New Jersey  1,346 1.3   1,588 1.6   1,710 1.8   1,676 1.9
New Mexico  1,468 4.9   1,491 5.6   1,192 5.3   981 5.1
New York  7,823 3.1   9,845 4.2   7,754 3.9   8,374 4.4
North Carolina  6,841 5.4   5,740 5.5   5,273 5.5   3,623 4.3
North Dakota  84 1.0   185 2.3   259 3.3   226 2.9
                       
Ohio  7,501 4.6   4,528 3.1   5,027 3.6   7,924 5.9
Oklahoma  1,309 2.7   1,446 3.1   1,573 3.7   1,270 3.2
Oregon  621 1.4   1,071 2.4   1,745 4.0   3,238 7.6
Pennsylvania  2,984 1.9   3,828 2.6   3,775 2.7   4,689 3.4
Rhode Island  681 5.0   700 5.7   644 5.7   534 5.0
                       
South Carolina  2,334 3.5   2,319 4.2   1,893 4.1   1,467 3.7
South Dakota  161 1.5   243 2.4   211 2.4   256 2.9
Tennessee  2,270 2.8   2,380 3.2   2,888 4.2   3,662 5.8
Texas  9,358 2.4   11,760 3.6   9,688 3.3   20,563 7.5
Utah  599 1.4   1,039 2.4   1,899 4.6   3,383 8.4
                       
Vermont  — —   — —   — —   — —
Virginia  2,296 2.1   2,256 2.3   2,464 2.7   3,119 3.7
Washington  3,423 3.8   3,910 4.6   5,206 6.5   6,437 8.2
West Virginia  930 3.9   927 4.4   959 4.8   864 4.7
Wisconsin  997 1.4   678 1.0   1,444 2.0   3,540 5.0
Wyoming  126 1.8   434 6.0   384 5.9   422 6.8
                       
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions 
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas3  — —   — —   — —   — —
DDESS: DoDs Domestic3  — —   — —   — —   — —
Bureau of Indian Education  — —   — —   — —   — —
American Samoa  — —   — —   — —   — —
Guam  — —   — —   — —   — —
Northern Marianas Islands  — —   — —   — —   — —
Puerto Rico  — —   — —   — —   — —
U.S. Virgin Islands  198 10.5   92 7.8   66 6.0   44 4.6
— Not available. State or jurisdiction did not report dropout counts or reported counts that did not conform to the NCES definition.
1 Ungraded student enrollment counts and ungraded dropout counts are not factored into these individual grade-level dropout rates.
2 Reporting states totals include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported all data elements.
3 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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