What is the US High School graduation rate?

Question

What is the US High School graduation rate?

Answer 1

The national graduation rate is 71% per cent.

Answer 2

Across the 48 reporting states, a total of 2,649,001 public school students received a high school

diploma in 2005–06, resulting in an averaged freshman graduation rate (AFGR) of 73.4 percent (table

1). This rate ranged from 55.8 percent in Nevada to 87.5 percent in Wisconsin. Fourteen states had rates

of 80.0 percent or higher

The above was taken from the recently published report...

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008353.pdf

I located it by starting at the U.S. Department of Education page - then linking to the Naitonal Center for Education Statistics

http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/landing.jhtml