Who Ranks Where?

Public High School Graduates, 1996-97, Compared With 9th Grade Enrollment in Fall 1993, by State

StateRegular HS Graduates9th Grade EnrollmentGraduate PercentageDropout RateRank
Alabama35,61162,14157.342.744
Alaska6,1339,60863.836.236
Arizona34,08254,87862.137.939
Arkansas25,14636,04569.830.228
California269,071406,55166.233.835
Colorado34,23147,34472.327.721
Connecticut27,00936,48174.026.020
Delaware5,6238,93063.037.037
Florida92,430164,97856.044.047
Georgia57,284107,62553.246.850
Hawaii8,89514,21962.637.438
Idaho15,38019,53778.721.39
Illinois110,170143,95076.523.514
Indiana57,47781,63270.429.627
Iowa32,73538,63784.715.33
Kansas26,64835,95574.125.919
Kentucky36,94154,50267.832.232
Louisiana36,49566,37655.045.049
Maine11,82716,63071.128.924
Maryland42,85660,21371.228.822
Massachusetts49,00864,64375.824.215
Michigan87,457126,93368.931.130
Minnesota48,19362,35377.322.711
Mississippi23,33841,66056.143.946
Missouri50,35471,28870.629.426
Montana10,32212,73781.019.06
Nebraska18,60122,62782.217.84
Nevada11,29917,01466.433.634
New Hampshire9,58113,47768.231.831
New Jersey70,02881,62985.814.22
New Mexico15,70027,11557.942.143
New York137,569225,24360.939.141
North Carolina57,88694,36961.338.740
North Dakota8,0259,23086.913.11
Ohio105,424151,24169.730.329
Oklahoma35,94846,59777.122.912
Oregon27,72041,12967.432.633
Pennsylvania108,817143,71975.724.316
Rhode Island7,84011,06070.929.125
South Carolina30,82958,79552.447.651
South Dakota9,12611,27680.919.17
Tennessee39,86671,36355.944.148
Texas181,794308,46158.941.142
Utah29,00733,52477.822.210
Vermont6,0967,51581.118.95
Virginia60,58780,27775.524.517
Washington51,48472,32271.228.822
District of Columbia2,8535,00353.246.845
West Virginia19,50226,19674.425.618
Wisconsin55,18169,40779.520.58
Wyoming6,3248,21577.023.013
Total2,341,4683,486,95867.132.3

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics in Brief, “Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Counts by State, School Year 1997-98,” April 1999. Contact: Ghedan Bairu (202) 219-1649.

New Jersey data are estimated/Data exclude ungraded pupils and have not been adjusted for interstate migration.

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