Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data

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Seventy-five percent of public high school students that began their freshman year of high school in the fall of 2006 graduated high school in the 2008–09 school year. This First Look, Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2008–09, presents findings associated with public high school graduation and event dropout counts for the 2008–09 school year. These data were collected as part of the Common Core of Data (CCD), a universe survey of public schools operating in the U.S. and territories by the National Center for Education Statistics. Other findings include:

• The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate increased by at least 1 percentage point in 22 states and the District of Columbia.

• During the 2008–09 school year, 4.1 percent of public high school students dropped out of school.