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High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 2007

Compendium Report

data for the District of Columbia, and Vermont were suppressed because
reporting standards were not met


Status dropout rates by race/ethnicity: The 2007 status dropout rates of Whites (5.3 percent) and Asians/Pacific Islanders (6.1 percent) were the lowest among the racial/ethnic groups considered in this report. The Black status dropout rate was 8.4 percent, followed by the Hispanic rate (21.4 percent) (table 6).

2007, the South and the West had higher status dropout rates (10.1 percent and 10.0 percent, respectively) than the Northeast and the Midwest (6.8 percent each)

Status completion rates by race/ethnicity: In 2007, among 18- through 24-year-olds not currently enrolled in high school, Whites and Asians/Pacific Islanders had higher status completion rates (93.5 percent and 93.1 percent, respectively) than Blacks (88.8 percent) or Hispanics (72.7 percent)

In 2007, some 56.1 percent of foreign-born Hispanics ages 18–24 who were not currently enrolled in high school had completed high school (table 9). Compared to foreign-born Hispanics, status completion rates were higher for Hispanics born in the United States

(85.9 percent for “first generation” and 85.1 percent for “second generation or higher”), although in each immigrant category Hispanics were less likely than non-Hispanics to have earned a high school credential

Status completion rates by region: Consistent with status dropout data by region, 18- through 24-year-olds in the South and West had lower status completion rates (87.2 percent and 87.1 percent, respectively) than their contemporaries in the Northeast (92.1 percent) and Midwest (91.4 percent)