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Table 219.46. Public high school 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR), by selected student characteristics and state: 2010-11 through 2019-20
State Total, ACGR for all students ACGR for students with selected characteristics,1 2019-20
2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013- 14 2014- 15 2015- 16 2016- 17 2017-18   2019-20 Race/ethnicity Students with disabil-ities2 English learner3 Economi- cally disadvan-taged4 Homeless enrolled Foster care
  White Black Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander5 American
Indian/
Alaska
Native
Two or more races
2018-19 Total Asian Pacific Islander
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10   11 12 13 14 15 16 17   18 19 20 21 22 23 24
United States 79 6 80 6 81 7 82 83 84 85 85 86 87 8 90 81 83 93 --- --- 75 9 --- 71 71 81 --- ---
Alabama10 72   75   80   86 89 87 89 90 92 91   92 88 88 95 96 82 93   92 69 72 86 74 67
Alaska 68   70   72   71 76 76 78 79 80 79   84 74 77 87 89 81 68   75 59 68 72 58 54
Arizona 78   76   75   76 77 80 78 79 78 77   83 72 74 91 92 78 64   73 66 55 74 49 45
Arkansas 81   84   85   87 85 87 88 89 88 89   91 85 87 86 94 70 89   86 84 84 86 78 65
California 76   79   80   81 82 83 83 83 85 84   88 77 82 92 93 84 76   79 68 69 81 70 58

Colorado
74   75   77   77 77 79 79 81 81 82   86 77 75 90 91 73 67   82 62 70 72 57 31
Connecticut 83   85   86   87 87 87 88 88 89 88   93 80 80 95 95 >=90 88   90 68 67 81 65 47
Delaware 78   80   80   87 86 86 87 87 89 89   91 87 86 95 95 >=50 83   89 73 76 82 73 74
District of Columbia 59   59   62   61 69 69 73 69 69 73   93 73 64 88 87 >=50 >=50   >=90 56 56 62 55 53
Florida 71   75   76   76 78 81 82 86 87 90   92 87 90 98 98 90 84   91 83 86 87 80 57

Georgia
67   70   72   73 79 79 81 82 82 84   87 81 78 93 --- --- 76   86 70 62 80 66
Hawaii 80   81   82   82 82 83 83 85 85 86   86 84 81 87 94 80   65 71 82 69 69
Idaho ---   ---   ---   77 79 80 80 81 81 82   84 69 76 87 89 76 65   79 59 65 74 61 40
Illinois 84   82   83   86 86 86 87 87 86    
Indiana 86   86   87   88 87 87 84 88 87 91   93 85 88 96 96 >=90 89   88 79 89 90 88 67

Iowa
88   89   90   91 91 91 91 91 92 92   94 81 85 92 94 76 83   89 76 77 86 76 64
Kansas 83   85   86   86 86 86 87 87 87 88   90 80 84 94 95 78 82   87 81 84 81 68 62
Kentucky ---   ---   86   88 88 89 90 90 91 91   93 83 84 94 94 88 90   89 78 74 88 85 ---
Louisiana 71   72   74   75 78 79 78 81 80 83   88 79 73 94 94 78 78   83 69 50 78 67 54
Maine 84   85   86   87 88 87 87 87 87 87   88 83 82 94 >=95 >=80 72   82 74 81 79 62 53

Maryland
83   84   85   86 87 88 88 87 87 87   94 85 72 96 96 90 87   92 69 56 79 66 50
Massachusetts 83   85   85   86 87 88 88 88 88 89   93 83 77 95 95 >=95 86   89 75 68 81 64 58
Michigan 74   76   77   79 80 80 80 81 81 82   85 70 76 93 93 78 74   77 59 74 72 60 40
Minnesota 77   78   80   81 82 82 83 83 84 84   89 69 70 89 89 73 56   73 65 66 72 50 ---
Mississippi 75   75   76   78 81 82 83 84 85 88   90 86 84 92 91 >=80 81   86 55 62 86 75 65

Missouri
81   84   86   87 88 89 88 89 90 90   92 79 87 93 --- --- 88   87 77 73 83 78 69
Montana 82   84   84   85 86 86 86 86 87 86   89 77 82 92 94 >=80 68   84 75 65 77 63 71
Nebraska 86   88   89   90 89 89 89 89 88 88   92 75 78 86 87 73 72   83 65 52 80 63 55
Nevada 62   63   71   70 71 74 81 83 84 83   86 70 81 92 93 85 74   85 66 75 79 75 50
New Hampshire 86   86   87   88 88 88 89 89 88 88   89 77 74 92 92 >=50 85   84 73 67 75 58 43

New Jersey
83   86   88   89 90 90 91 91 91 91   95 86 85 97 97 94 89   92 80 73 85 74 55
New Mexico 63   70   70   69 69 71 71 74 75 77   81 74 76 87 --- --- 72   66 76 72 59 39
New York 77   77   77   78 79 80 82 82 83 84   90 75 75 90 90 82 75   83 61 39 77 61 57
North Carolina 78   80   83   84 86 86 87 86 87 88   91 85 82 94 --- --- 85   85 72 71 82 72 57
North Dakota 86   87   88   87 87 88 87 88 88 89   92 82 78 88 90 75 73   --- 72 83 77 65 73

Ohio
80   81   82   82 81 84 84 82 82 84   88 72 76 91 --- --- 78   81 57 68 74 59 57
Oklahoma ---   ---   85   83 83 82 83 82 85 81   83 75 77 83 85 69 80   84 88 84 87 66 58
Oregon 68   68   69   72 74 75 77 79 80 83   84 76 80 90 92 77 67   81 68 65 78 61 ---
Pennsylvania 83   84   86   85 85 86 87 86 87 87   91 77 77 93 93 83 78   81 73 69 80 70 56
Rhode Island 77   77   80   81 83 83 84 84 84 84   88 80 76 91 92 >=80 69   77 63 69 76 57 57

South Carolina
74   75   78   80 80 83 84 81 81 82   85 78 80 93 --- --- 81   --- 56 81 76 64 44
South Dakota 83   83   83   83 84 84 84 84 84 84   90 80 72 83 86 <50 53   78 69 65 69 53 43
Tennessee 86   87   86   87 88 89 90 90 91 90   94 84 83 95 95 93 91   --- 75 69 84 78 60
Texas 86   88   88   88 89 89 90 90 90 ---   --- --- --- --- --- --- ---   --- --- --- --- --- ---
Utah 76   80   83   84 85 85 86 87 87 88   91 79 80 87 90 84 73   88 73 73 78 --- ---

Vermont
87   88   87   88 88 88 89 85 85 83   85 70 82 74 >=50   76 69 49 75 55 ---
Virginia 82   83   85   85 86 87 87 88 88 89   93 86 75 95 96 94 88   92 68 63 83 62 54
Washington 76   77   76   78 78 80 79 87 81 83   85 76 78 89 91 77 70   84 65 69 75 69 50
West Virginia 78   79   81   85 87 90 89 90 91 92   92 86 93 >=95 >=95 >=50 >=80   88 84 >=95 87 82 ---
Wisconsin 87   88   88   89 88 88 89 90 90 90   94 71 84 92 93 85 85   87 70 77 82 67 60
Wyoming 80   79   77   79 79 80 86 82 82 82   84 66 78 86 89 >=50 62   80 63 60 72 64 ---
---Not available.
†Not applicable.
‡Reporting standards not met.
1The time when students are identified as having certain characteristics varies by state. Depending on the state, a student may be included in a category if the relevant characteristic is reported in 9th-grade data, if the characteristic is reported in 12th-grade data, or if it is reported at any point during the student’s high school years.
2Students identified as children with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
3Students who met the definition of English learner as outlined in the EDFacts workbook. For more information, see https://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/eden-workbook.html.
4Students who met the state criteria for classification as economically disadvantaged.
5States either report data for a combined "Asian/Pacific Islander" group or report the "Asian" and "Pacific Islander" groups separately. Total represents either a single value reported by the state for "Asian/Pacific Islander" or an aggregation of separate values reported for "Asian" and "Pacific Islander." "Asian/Pacific Islander" includes the "Filipino" group, which only California and Hawaii report separately.
6Includes imputed data for Idaho, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. Data were not available for these states because they had not yet started reporting ACGR data in 2010-11 and 2011-12.
7Includes imputed data for Idaho. Data were not available for Idaho because this state had not yet started reporting ACGR data in 2012-13.
8Includes imputed data for Illinois and Texas.
9Estimated assuming a count of zero American Indian/Alaska Native students for Hawaii.
10Use data with caution. The Alabama State Department of Education has indicated that their ACGR data for some years was misstated. For more information, please see https://www.oversight.gov/report/ed/calculating-and-reporting-graduation-rates-alabama.
NOTE: The adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR) is the percentage of public high school freshmen who graduate with a regular diploma or a state-defined alternate high school diploma for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities within 4 years of starting 9th grade. Students who are entering 9th grade for the first time form a cohort for the graduating class. This cohort is "adjusted" by adding any students who subsequently transfer into the cohort and subtracting any students who subsequently transfer out, emigrate to another country, or die. Before 2017-18, the definition of ACGR included regular high school diplomas only. Values preceded by the ">=" or "<" symbol have been "blurred" (rounded) to protect student privacy. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. In 2019-20, some states may have changed their requirements for a regular high school diploma to account for the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. These changes are at the discretion of each state but may have resulted in less comparability in the ACGRs between 2019-20 and prior school years.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Consolidated State Performance Report, 2010-11 through 2012-13; and National Center for Education Statistics, EDFacts file 150, Data Group 695, and EDFacts file 151, Data Group 696, 2013-14 through 2019-20. (This table was prepared December 2022.)

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