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Snapshot: School Completion Rates

Sep 20, 2012 | Snapshot

School Completion Rates

  1. New Jersey ranks #1 in the nation in the percentage of students who graduate.
  2. New Jersey’s gradation rate is estimated at 87 percent, above the national average of 73 percent.
  3. In New Jersey, 69 percent of black students complete high school, well above the national average of 59 percent.
  4. In the past decade, New Jersey’s high school completion rate has increased 11 percentage points, outpacing the rest of the nation, where the increase was 7 percent.
  5. On average, 70 percent of male students earn a diploma compared with 76 percent of female students,a gender gap of nearly 7 percentage points that has remained virtually unchanged for years.
  6. In 2009, 73 percent of students with disabilities completed high school.
  7. In 2009, the high school drop out rate among students with disabilities was 2.5 percent. For white, non-disabled students, the rate was 0.9 percent.*

Unless otherwise noted, all data are for academic your 2009 as reported by Education Week for their 2011 Diplomas Count report.

* NJDOE Data, July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011.