A new report on high school completion of students 24 and under published this month –provides a variety of trends. In many ways—graduation rates have been trending up since the 1970’s. Hispanic rates tend to be much lower than whites and blacks.
Rates are higher when they include populations that did not go to schools in the U.S. which includes many enrolled in Florida’s adult literacy programs. Lower income students have a higher drop out rate.
This study presents the dropout rate trends in a variety of ways. One is based on the graduation rate of schools. As you see from report data below, Florida is just below 70% with 8 other states.
State averaged freshman graduation rates for public school students:
Eight states had rates below 70.0 percent—Alabama, 69.9 percent; Florida, 68.9 percent; Georgia, 67.8 percent; Louisiana, 67.3 percent; South Carolina, 66.0 percent; New Mexico, 64.8 percent; Mississippi, 62.0 percent; and Nevada, 56.3 percent—as did the District of Columbia, 62.4 percent.
