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State Total White Black Hispanic Asian/
Pacific Islander
American Indian/ Alaska Native
Reporting states1 74.9 81.0 61.5 63.5 91.4 64.2
Alabama 69.0 73.9 60.6 62.2 87.3 82.3
Alaska 69.1 70.3 51.8 90.7 76.6 51.9
Arizona 70.7 73.6 76.9 66.7 98.5 56.3
Arkansas 76.4 77.7 70.2 77.9 100.0 86.9
California 71.2 80.1 57.4 61.2 91.1 65.3
Colorado 75.4 82.9 65.1 56.7 92.1 62.0
Connecticut 82.2 87.5 71.1 65.8 99.0 65.8
Delaware 72.1
District of Columbia 56.0 88.9 58.8 54.2 74.4 100.0
Florida 66.9 70.1 55.7 63.9 91.4 70.3
Georgia 65.4 70.7 57.4 55.4 92.9 72.1
Hawaii 76.0 72.7 69.6 71.3 77.3 80.3
Idaho 80.1 81.7 78.2 68.7 91.5 65.8
Illinois 80.4 87.7 61.5 69.6 100.0 95.8
Indiana 74.1 75.9 52.6 66.6 100.0 69.8
Iowa 86.4 88.0 71.9 70.2 93.2 63.6
Kansas 79.1 82.4 64.7 62.2 93.4 63.9
Kentucky 74.4 74.2 67.8 75.6 100.0 51.0
Louisiana 63.5 71.9 53.3 72.3 86.1 65.2
Maine 2 79.1
Maryland 80.4 84.9 73.0 75.9 100.0 73.4
Massachusetts 81.5 84.4 69.6 64.7 89.1 66.8
Michigan 76.3 81.6 59.2 63.8 94.8 66.6
Minnesota 86.4 90.3 66.6 62.3 87.9 55.6
Mississippi 63.9 67.0 60.5 65.9 88.3 58.0
Missouri 82.4 85.2 68.0 83.6 100.0 93.2
Montana 82.0 84.7 64.6 69.5 100.0 63.3
Nebraska 83.8 88.6 57.0 67.2 97.8 55.1
Nevada 51.3
New Hampshire 83.4 83.3 100.0 48.1 99.2 60.0
New Jersey 84.6 88.3 72.9 76.4 100.0 100.0
New Mexico 66.8 74.7 71.4 62.3 100.0 61.0
New York 70.8 82.7 54.7 53.1 84.2 55.5
North Carolina 72.8 77.3 61.9 63.7 86.9 60.7
North Dakota 83.8 87.8 95.1 63.7 85.9 47.0
Ohio 79.0 84.4 55.5 65.6 95.3 74.1
Oklahoma 78.0 79.0 72.4 73.0 100.0 76.4
Oregon 76.7 77.1 65.8 71.0 91.2 62.8
Pennsylvania 82.7 86.9 64.5 67.8 100.0 63.8
Rhode Island 76.4 79.0 74.7 70.1 74.4 78.0
South Carolina
South Dakota 84.4 88.3 88.4 71.0 97.4 51.3
Tennessee 74.9 77.3 67.4 72.3 94.3 71.9
Texas 73.1 81.6 65.7 65.9 98.6 80.1
Utah 74.3 77.9 54.4 50.6 73.5 57.6
Vermont 89.3 81.1 91.2 100.0 81.8 83.9
Virginia 77.0 80.8 65.3 70.5 99.1 55.2
Washington 71.9 73.6 58.2 60.3 84.4 50.6
West Virginia 77.3 77.3 72.3 87.8 100.0 70.0
Wisconsin 89.6 94.0 63.1 75.0 97.5 73.9
Wyoming 76.0 78.5 61.8 65.5 98.5 38.5
— Not available. State or jurisdiction did not report diploma count by race/ethnicity. Nevada did not report membership data needed to calculate the AFGR by race/ethnicity.
‡ Reporting standards not met.
1 Reporting states totals include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported all data elements.
2 Maine included 1,161 diplomas that were awarded to students attending private schools that received a majority of their funding from public sources. These 1,161 diplomas were included in Maine and the reporting states counts but were not included in the AFGR calculations for the state and for the reporting states totals. Because the racial/ethnic breakdown of these students was not known, and because these students were not reported on Maine's state-level reporting in the past, the AFGR was not calculated by race/ethnicity, nor were Maine's data included among the reporting states for race/ethnicity. The diploma counts used to calculate the AFGR for Maine and for the reporting states were 13,189 and 2,964,125, respectively.
NOTE: The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR) is an estimate of the percentage of an entering freshman class graduating in 4 years. For 2007–08, it equals the total number of diploma recipients in 2007–08 divided by the average membership of the 8th-grade class in 2003–04, the 9th-grade class in 2004–05, and the 10th-grade class in 2005–06. 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, Public School Graduates and Dropouts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007–08 (NCES 2010-341), tables 2 and 3. Data from "NCES Common Core of Data State Dropout and Completion Data File," School Year 2007–08, Version 1a.
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