State High School Graduation Rates By Race, Ethnicity

U.S. public high schools recorded a four-year graduation rate of 80 percent for the 2011-12 school year, an all-time high.

Graduation rates vary greatly by state and race. Nationwide, black students graduated at a rate of 69 percent; Hispanics graduated at 73 percent; whites graduated at a rate of 86 percent.

The following table lists 2011-2012 four-year adjusted cohort state graduation rates for public high schools by student race and ethnicity. Please note that state graduation rate data was not reported for Idaho, Kentucky and Oklahoma.

State	Total	White	Hispanic	Black	Asian / Pacific Islander
Alabama	75	81	69	67	85
Alaska	70	76	70	61	76
Arizona	76	84	70	71	84
Arkansas	84	87	78	78	84
California	78	86	73	66	90
Colorado	75	82	62	66	82
Connecticut	85	91	69	73	92
Delaware	80	83	74	74	93
District of Columbia	59	86	54	58	74
Florida	75	80	73	64	89
Georgia	70	78	60	62	82
Hawaii	82	79	76	76	84
Illinois	82	89	76	68	93
Indiana	86	89	80	73	89
Iowa	89	91	77	74	89
Kansas	85	88	77	75	86
Louisiana	72	78	70	65	85
Maine	85	86	80	72	89
Maryland	84	90	73	77	93
Massachusetts	85	90	66	73	89
Michigan	76	82	64	60	87
Minnesota	78	84	53	51	74
Mississippi	75	82	79	69	90
Missouri	86	89	80	73	90
Montana	84	87	79	79	92
Nebraska	88	91	78	74	83
Nevada	63	72	54	48	74
New Hampshire	86	87	74	76	86
New Jersey	86	93	77	75	95
New Mexico	70	77	68	69	84
New York	77	87	63	63	86
North Carolina	80	85	73	75	87
North Dakota	87	90	73	76	86
Ohio	81	86	68	61	90
Oregon	68	71	60	53	79
Pennsylvania	84	89	68	68	89
Rhode Island	77	82	67	67	79
South Carolina	75	78	69	71	85
South Dakota	83	89	67	67	84
Tennessee	87	91	80	79	91
Texas	88	93	84	84	94
Utah	80	83	66	64	78
Vermont	88	88	86	72	94
Virginia	83	88	73	75	90
Washington	77	80	67	67	82
West Virginia	79	80	79	74	94
Wisconsin	88	92	74	64	89
Wyoming	79	82	67	66	86

Source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data State Dropout and Graduation Rate Data
Review 2010-2011 graduation rates here.