- Status Current
- Published February 6, 2014 // Science & Enginneering Indicators 2014
- URL http://ncses.digitalinfo.org/analysis/00016/
Indicator
Completion of High School
Highlights
Rates of students graduating within 4 years of entering ninth grade ("on-time" graduation) have increased in recent years, but differences among racial and ethnic groups persist.
- In 2010, 78% of public school students completed high school on time, up from 73% in 2006. All racial and ethnic groups made progress during this period, with improvement ranging from 3 percentage points for white students to 10 percentage points for Hispanic students.
- In 2010, Asian or Pacific Islander and white students graduated on time at a higher rate (94% and 83%, respectively) than did black, Hispanic, and American Indian or Alaska Native students (66%, 71%, and 69%, respectively).
The U.S. high school graduation rate lags behind those of many developed nations.
- The United States ranked 22nd out of 26 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries for which graduation rate data were available in 2010, with an average graduation rate of 77% among the population of 18-year-olds, compared with the OECD average of 84%.
- The relative standing of U.S. high school graduation rates did not improve between 2006 and 2010, ranking 16th in both 2006 and 2008 and 17th in 2010 among the 21 OECD countries with available data.
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