High School Graduation Rate

From 2000 to 2010, the percentage of public high school students who graduated on time (i.e., four years after starting 9th grade) increased by 6.9 percentage points.

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Additional Resources

• Barriers to High School Completion Create Barriers to Economic Mobility
• The Value of Parental Choice in Education: A Look at the Research

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, Digest of Education Statistics, List of 2012 Digest Tables, Table 122, “High school graduates, by sex and control of school: Selected years, 1869–70 through 2021–22,” (accessed April 7, 2014).

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