Table 4. Public high school number of dropouts, event dropout rate, and enrollment for grades 9–12, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2008

Public School Graduates and Dropouts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2008–09

NCES 2011-312
May 2011

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Table 4. Public high school number of dropouts, event dropout rate, and enrollment for grades 9–12, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2008–09
State or jurisdiction	Number of dropouts¹		Dropout rate¹,²		Enrollment grades 9–12²
Total³	607,789		4.1		14,954,795

Alabama	3,292		1.5		217,590
Alaska	2,904		7.0		41,399
Arizona	26,173		8.3		316,122
Arkansas	5,641		4.1		137,358
California	101,188	⁴	5.0	⁴	2,013,687

Colorado	14,571		6.1		238,139
Connecticut	5,392		3.1		174,980
Delaware	1,987		5.1		38,619
District of Columbia	1,246		7.0		17,898
Florida	20,609		2.6		781,725

Georgia	19,942		4.2		470,108
Hawaii	2,598		4.9		53,535
Idaho	1,338		1.6		81,497
Illinois	73,480		11.5		640,512
Indiana	5,429		1.7		316,126

Iowa	4,782		3.1		151,993
Kansas	2,895		2.1		140,032
Kentucky	5,673		2.9		197,825
Louisiana	12,282		6.8		180,660
Maine	2,264		3.6		63,611

Maryland	7,929		3.0		267,388
Massachusetts	8,585		2.9		292,593
Michigan	20,714		3.8		541,231
Minnesota	5,177		1.9		275,864
Mississippi	5,835		4.2		139,135

Missouri	12,221		4.3		282,460
Montana	2,272		5.0		45,030
Nebraska	2,178		2.4		89,678
Nevada	6,341	⁴	5.1	⁴	125,117
New Hampshire	1,126		1.7		64,939

New Jersey	6,926		1.6		425,555
New Mexico	4,804		4.9		98,830
New York	36,790		4.2		875,179
North Carolina	22,966		5.3		429,719
North Dakota	757		2.5		30,773

Ohio	24,109		4.2		577,669
Oklahoma	4,462		2.5		177,132
Oregon	6,132		3.4		179,972
Pennsylvania	13,519		2.3		580,304
Rhode Island	2,086		4.4		47,359

South Carolina	7,074		3.4		210,511
South Dakota	683		1.8		38,952
Tennessee	9,086		3.2		287,401
Texas	41,393		3.2		1,305,637
Utah	5,050		3.3		155,309

Vermont	784		2.6		30,631
Virginia	9,452		2.5		380,787
Washington	15,509		4.7		332,224
West Virginia	3,444		4.1		83,252
Wisconsin	6,412		2.3		284,222
Wyoming	287		1.1		26,526
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas⁵	—		—		—
DDESS: DoDs Domestic⁵	—		—		—
Bureau of Indian Education	—		—		—
American Samoa	—		—		—
Guam	—		—		—
Commonwealth of the
Northern Marianas Islands	—		—		—
Puerto Rico	—		—		147,957
U.S. Virgin Islands	387		7.4		5,201
— Not available. State or jurisdiction did not report dropout counts or reported counts that did not conform to the Nation Center for Education Statistics (NCES) definition.
¹ Ungraded dropouts are prorated by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) into grades 9–12 based on the graded dropout counts to calculate numerators for dropout rates.
² Ungraded student enrollments are prorated by NCES into grades 9–12 based on graded enrollments to calculate denominators for dropout rates.
³ Totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
⁴ Due to item non-response, data for California and Nevada were imputed based on prior year reported data.
⁵ 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 2008–09, Version 1a.

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