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Contents
SELECTED FINDINGS 4
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 6
INTRODUCTION 11
INDICATORS 17
INDICATOR 1. EVENT DROPOUT RATE 18
INDICATOR 2. CPS STATUS DROPOUT RATE 22
INDICATOR 3. ACS STATUS DROPOUT RATE 29
INDICATOR 4. STATUS COMPLETION RATE 40
INDICATOR 5. ADJUSTED COHORT GRADUATION RATE 46
INDICATOR 6. AVERAGED FRESHMAN GRADUATION RATE 54
INDICATOR 7. ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL CREDENTIALS 56
REFERENCES 61
APPENDIX A. GUIDE TO SOURCES 77
APPENDIX B. ECHNICAL NOTES 82
APPENDIX C. GLOSSARY 89
Table A. Summary table of high school dropout, completion, and graduation rates 14
Table 1.1. Among 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in grades 10 through 12, percentage who dropped out(event dropout rate), and number and percentage distribution of 15- to 24-year-olds in grades 10 through 12, by selected characteristics: Selected years, 2006 through 2016 62
Table 1.2. Among 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in grades 10 through 12, percentage who dropped out(event dropout rate), by sex and race/ethnicity: 1972 through 2016 63
Table 2.1. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 to 24 years old(status dropout rate) and number and percentage distribution of 16- to 24-year-olds, by selected characteristics: Selected years, 2006 through 2016 64
Table 2.2. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 to 24 years old(status dropout rate), by sex and race/ethnicity: Selected years, 1960 through 2016 65
Table 2.3. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 to 24 years old(status dropout rate), by income level, and percentage distribution of status dropouts, by labor force status and years of school completed: 1970 through 2016 66
Table 3.1. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 to 24 years old(status dropout rate) and number of status dropouts, by noninstitutionalized or institutionalized status, birth in or outside of the United States, and selected characteristics: Selected years, 2006 through 2016 67
Table 3.2. Percentage of high school dropouts among noninstitutionalized and institutionalized persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by race/ethnicity and state: 2016 69
Table 4.1. Number and high school completion rate of 18- to 24-year-olds not enrolled in high school(status completion rate), by selected characteristics: Selected years, 2006 through 2016 70
Table 4.2. High school completion rate of 18- to 24-year-olds not enrolled in high school(status completion rate), by sex and race/ethnicity: 1972 through 2016 71
Table 5.1. Public high school 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate(ACGR), by selected student characteristics and state: 2010-11 through 2015-16 72
Table 6.1. High school graduates, by sex and control of school: Selected years, 1869-70 through 2026-27 73
Table 6.2. Public high school averaged freshman graduation rate(AFGR), by sex, race/ethnicity, and state or jurisdiction: 2012-13 74
Table 7.1. Number and percentage of people taking, completing, and passing high school equivalency tests, by test taken and state or jurisdiction: 2013 and 2015 75
Figure 1.1. Percentage of grade 10-12 dropouts among persons 15 through 24 years old(event dropout rate), by selected characteristics: October 2016 19
Figure 1.2. Percentage of grade 10-12 dropouts among persons 15 through 24 years old(event dropout rate), by race/ethnicity: October 1976 through 2016 20
Figure 2.1. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by selected characteristics: October 2016 23
Figure 2.2. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by race/ethnicity: October 1976 through 2016 24
Figure 2.3. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by recency of immigration and ethnicity: October 2016 26
Figure 2.4. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by labor force status: October 1976 through 2016 27
Figure 2.5. Percentage distribution of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by years of school completed: Selected years, October 1976 through 2016 28
Figure 3.1. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by selected characteristics: 2016 30
Figure 3.2. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by race/ethnicity and noninstitutionalized or institutionalized status: 2016 31
Figure 3.3. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by selected Hispanic subgroups: 2016 32
Figure 3.4. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by selected Asian subgroups: 2016 33
Figure 3.5. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by race/ethnicity and sex: 2016 35
Figure 3.6. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by race/ethnicity and nativity: 2016 36
Figure 3.7. Percentage of high school dropouts among persons 16 through 24 years old(status dropout rate), by state: 2016 37
Figure 3.8. States in which status dropout rates for Black and Hispanic youth are higher than, not measurably different from, or lower than the status dropout rate for White youth: 2016 39
Figure 4.1. Status completion rates of 18- to 24-year-olds, by race/ethnicity, sex, and disability status: October 2016 41
Figure 4.2. Status completion rates of 18- to 24-year-olds, by race/ethnicity: October 1976 through 2016 42
Figure 4.3. Status completion rates of 18- to 24-year-olds, by sex: October 1976 through 2016 44
Figure 4.4. Status completion rates of 18- to 24-year-olds, by recency of immigration and ethnicity: October 2016 45
Figure 5.1. Adjusted cohort graduation rate(ACGR) of public high school students, by state: 2015-16 47
Figure 5.2. Adjusted cohort graduation rate(ACGR) of public high school students, by race/ethnicity: 2015-16 48
Figure 5.3. Adjusted cohort graduation rate(ACGR) of Black and White public high school students, by state: 2015-16 49
Figure 5.4. Adjusted cohort graduation rate(ACGR) of Hispanic and White public high school students, by state: 2015-16 51
Figure 6.1. Averaged freshman graduation rate(AFGR) for public secondary schools in the United States: Selected years, 1990-91 through 2012-13 55
Figure 7.1. Pass rate for General Educational Development Test(GED), by state: 2013 57
Figure 7.2. Pass rate for High School Equivalency Test(HiSET), by state: 2015 59
Figure 7.3. Pass rate for Test Assessing Secondary Completion(TASC), by state: 2015 60