Table 3.Public high school Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), by year and state or jurisdiction: School years 2002–03 through 2009

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Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009–10

Table 3.	Public high school Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), by year and state or jurisdiction: School years 2002–03 through 2009–10

State or jurisdiction	AFGR¹
State or jurisdiction	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10
Reporting states²	73.9	75.0	74.7	73.2	73.9	74.7	75.5 3	78.2
Alabama	64.7	65.0	65.9	66.2	67.1	69.0	69.9	71.8
Alaska	68.0	67.2	64.1	66.5	69.1	69.1	72.6	75.5
Arizona	75.9	66.8	84.7	70.5	69.6	70.7	72.5	74.7
Arkansas	76.6	76.8	75.7	80.4	74.4	76.4	74.0	75.0
California	74.1	73.9	74.6	69.2	70.7	71.2	71.0 ⁴	78.2
Colorado	76.4	78.7	76.7	75.5	76.6	75.4	77.6	79.8
Connecticut	80.9	80.7	80.9	80.9	81.8	82.2	75.4	75.1 ⁴
Delaware	73.0	72.9	73.1	76.3	71.9	72.1	73.7	75.5
District of Columbia	59.6	68.2	68.8	—	54.9	56.0	62.4	59.9
Florida	66.7	66.4	64.6	63.6	65.0	66.9	68.9	70.8
Georgia	60.8	61.2	61.7	62.4	64.1	65.4	67.8	69.9
Hawaii	71.3	72.6	75.1	75.5	75.4	76.0	75.3	75.4
Idaho	81.4	81.5	81.0	80.5	80.4	80.1	80.6	84.0
Illinois	75.9	80.3	79.4	79.7	79.5	80.4	77.7	81.9
Indiana	75.5	73.5	73.2	73.3	73.9	74.1	75.2	77.2
Iowa	85.3	85.8	86.6	86.9	86.5	86.4	85.7	87.9
Kansas	76.9	77.9	79.2	77.6	78.9	79.1	80.2	84.5
Kentucky	71.7	73.0	75.9	77.2	76.4	74.4	77.6	79.9
Louisiana	64.1	69.4	63.9	59.5	61.3	63.5	67.3	68.8
Maine	76.3	77.6	78.6	76.3	78.5	79.1	79.9 3	82.8 ⁵
Maryland	79.2	79.5	79.3	79.9	80.0	80.4	80.1	82.2
Massachusetts	75.7	79.3	78.7	79.5	80.8	81.5	83.3	82.6
Michigan	74.0	72.5	73.0	72.2	77.0	76.3	75.3	75.9
Minnesota	84.8	84.7	85.9	86.2	86.5	86.4	87.4	88.2
Mississippi	62.7	62.7	63.3	63.5	63.6	63.9	62.0	63.8
Missouri	78.3	80.4	80.6	81.0	81.9	82.4	83.1	83.7
Montana	81.0	80.4	81.5	81.9	81.5	82.0	82.0	81.9
Nebraska	85.2	87.6	87.8	87.0	86.3	83.8	82.9	83.8
Nevada	72.3	57.4	55.8	55.8	54.2	56.3	56.3 ⁴	57.8
New Hampshire	78.2	78.7	80.1	81.1	81.7	83.4	84.3	86.3
New Jersey	87.0	86.3	85.1	84.8	84.4	84.6	85.3	87.2
New Mexico	63.1	67.0	65.4	67.3	59.1	66.8	64.8	67.3
New York	60.9	—	65.3	67.4	68.8	70.8	73.5	76.0
North Carolina	70.1	71.4	72.6	71.8	68.6	72.8	75.1	76.9
North Dakota	86.4	86.1	86.3	82.1	83.1	83.8	87.4	88.4
Ohio	79.0	81.3	80.2	79.2	78.7	79.0	79.6	81.4
Oklahoma	76.0	77.0	76.9	77.8	77.8	78.0	77.3	78.5
Oregon	73.7	74.2	74.2	73.0	73.8	76.7	76.5	76.3
Pennsylvania	81.7	82.2	82.5	—	83.0	82.7	80.5	84.1
Rhode Island	77.7	75.9	78.4	77.8	78.4	76.4	75.3	76.4
South Carolina	59.7	60.6	60.1	—	58.9	62.2	66.0	68.2
South Dakota	83.0	83.7	82.3	84.5	82.5	84.4	81.7	81.8
Tennessee	63.4	66.1	68.5	70.6	72.6	74.9	77.4	80.4
Texas	75.5	76.7	74.0	72.5	71.9	73.1	75.4	78.9
Utah	80.2	83.0	84.4	78.6	76.6	74.3	79.4	78.6
Vermont	83.6	85.4	86.5	82.3	88.6	89.3	89.6	91.4
Virginia	80.6	79.3	79.6	74.5	75.5	77.0	78.4	81.2
Washington	74.2	74.6	75.0	72.9	74.8	71.9	73.7	77.2
West Virginia	75.7	76.9	77.3	76.9	78.2	77.3	77.0	78.3
Wisconsin	85.8	—	86.7	87.5	88.5	89.6	90.7	91.1
Wyoming	73.9	76.0	76.7	76.1	75.8	76.0	75.2	80.3

Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas⁶	— —	— —	— —	— —	— —	— —	— —	— —
DDESS: DoDs Domestic⁶
Bureau of Indian Education	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
American Samoa	81.0	80.2	77.9	81.0	84.6	—	—	—
Guam	56.3	48.4	—	—	—	—	—	—
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands	65.2	75.3	75.4	80.2	73.6	—	—	—
Puerto Rico	67.8	64.8	61.7	68.6	66.7	64.5	67.2	60.2
U.S. Virgin Islands	53.5	—	—	—	57.7	58.2	63.1	65.5

— Not available. State or jurisdiction did not report diploma count.
¹ AFGR is an estimate of the percentage of an entering freshman class graduating in 4 years. For 2009–10, it equals the total number of diploma recipients in 2009–10 divided by the average membership of the 8th-grade class in 2005–06, the 9th-grade class in 2006–07, and the 10th-grade class in 2007–08.
² Reporting states totals include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported all data elements.
³ Maine reported 1,169 diplomas that were awarded to students attending private high schools that received a majority of their funding from public sources. These 1,169 diplomas were included in the Maine and the Total counts but were not included in the AFGR calculations for Maine and for the Total AFGR. The diploma counts used to calculate the AFGR for Maine and for the reporting states were 12,924 and 3,036,757, respectively.
⁴ Due to item non-response: data for Connecticut was imputed for 2009–10 and data for California and Nevada were imputed for 2008–09. Imputations are based on prior year rates. No state data were imputed prior to 2008–09.
⁵ Maine's estimated first-time 9th graders were edited to include 1,419 9th grade, publicly-funded private school students that were reported as 9th graders on the 2006–07 Common Core of Data (CCD) but were reported as 10th graders in 2007–08 and as diploma recipients in 2009–10.
⁶ 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: Ungraded students were allocated to individual grades proportional to each state's enrollment in those grades.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1998–99, Version 1c; 1999–2000, Version 1c; 2000–01, Version 1b; 2001–02, Version 1b; 2002–03, Version 1b; and "NCES Common Core of Data State Dropout and Completion Data File," School Year 2005–06, Version 1b; 2006–07, Version 1b; 2007–08, Version 1b; 2008–09, Version 1a; and 2009–10, Version 1a.

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