High School Completion

Report Card Charts

Priority 22:

Percentage of High School Completers (Status
Completers) Among Persons 16 to 24 Years Old

Note: "Status" completers are 16- to 24-year-olds who are enrolled in school or who have completed a high school program. People who have received GED credentials are counted as high school completers. All data are based on October counts. Data are based on sample surveys of the civilian noninstitutional population.
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, unpublished tabulations; and U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Dropout Rates in the United States. (This table was prepared December 1998.) Limitations of data: Self-reported data. Consistent with trends from "Recent School Dropouts" shown below.

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Priority 23:

Recent School Dropouts, by Family Income, 1988-1998
(Event Dropout Rates)

Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Dropout Rates in the United States 1998, based on data from U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October (various years). Limitations of data: Self-reported data.

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