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Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
In the 2008–2009 school year the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (an estimate for on-time high school graduation) in public schools was 75.5% for all reporting states and DC.
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Students who graduate with a regular diploma 4 years after starting 9th grade (AH-5.1)
Students who graduate with a regular diploma 4 years after starting 9th grade (AH-5.1)
- Healthy People 2020 objective AH-5.1 tracks the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR) in public schools. The AFGR is an estimate of on-time high school graduation.
- HP2020 Baseline: In the 2007–08 school year, 74.9% of students attending public high schools graduated with a regular diploma, 4 years after starting 9th grade
- HP2020 Target: 82.4%, a 10 percent improvement over the baseline.
- On-time high school graduation estimates have increased from 72.6% in the 2001–02 school year to 75.5% in the 2008–09 school year. (This trend cannot be tested for statistical significance.)
- Among racial and ethnic groups, the Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic population had the highest (best) rate of on-time high school graduation, 91.8% for the 2008–2009 school year. Rates for other subgroups were:
- White, non-Hispanic: 82.0%
- American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic: 64.8%
- Hispanic: 65.9%
- Black, non-Hispanic: 63.5%
- When expressed as a percentage of public high school students who did not graduate on-time in the 2008–09 school year the percent differences from the best rate for the subgroups were:
- White, non-Hispanic: more than twice the best rate.
- American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic: almost four and a half times the best rate.
- Hispanic: more than four times the best rate.
- Black, non-Hispanic: about four and a half times the best rate.
Endnotes:
- Differences could not be tested for statistical significance.
- The terms “Hispanic or Latino” and “Hispanic” are used interchangeably in this report.
- AFGR is an estimate of the percentage of an entering freshman class graduating in 4 years. For 2008–09, it equals the total number of diploma recipients in 2008–09 divided by the average membership of the 8th grade class in 2004–05, the 9th grade class in 2005–06, and the 10th grade class in 2006–07.
- Estimates include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported all data elements. Exceptions for the 2008–09 school year were: data for the total line were imputed for Nevada and California based on data from the previous school year and estimates for race/ethnicity do not include data from Nevada or Maine. Exceptions from the 2007–08 school year were: data for the total line do not include South Carolina and estimates for race/ethnicity do not include data from Delaware or Nevada.
- Data for this objective are available annually and come from the Common Core of Data (CCD), Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (ED, NCES).
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