What's New for January 2013

Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009–10 (January 22, 2013)
Seventy-eight percent of high school students, nationwide, graduated on time; an increase of 2 percentage points from the previous year. This graduation rate is based on the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate calculated from enrollment and graduation counts reported to the National Center for Education Statistics at the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education. This report presents the latest release of the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR) and the Event Dropout Rate. These rates are disaggregated by year, race/ethnicity, gender, and, where applicable, grade.

Projections of Education Statistics to 2021 (January 9, 2013)
This publication provides projections for key education statistics including statistics on enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, and enrollment and earned degrees conferred expenditures of degree-granting institutions.

Trends in Debt for Bachelor’s Degree Recipients a Year After Graduation: 1994, 2001 and 2009 (January 3, 2013)
This report presents a comprehensive set of tables about the debt of recent college graduates for three cohorts of bachelor’s degree recipients spanning a 15-year period. Tables feature statistics on loan repayment, further educational pursuits, and employment status of first-time bachelor’s degree recipients who graduated in 1992–93, 1999–2000, and 2007–08.

First-Year Undergraduate Remedial Coursetaking: 1999-2000, 2003-04, and 2007-08 (January 2, 2013)
This Statistics in Brief uses the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) to measure the frequency and change of remedial coursetaking in U.S. postsecondary institutions.