1. Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009–10 nces.ed.gov National Center for Education Statistics releases: NCES Commissioner Jack Buckley

2. Averaged freshman graduation rate for public high school students: Selected school years 1990-91 through 2009-10 SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1986-87 through 2007-08; "State Dropout and Completion Data File," 2005-06 through 2009-10; The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate for Public High Schools From the CCD: School Years 2002-03 and 2003-04; and Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the CCD, 2007-08 and 2008-09.

3. Averaged freshman graduation rate for public high school students, by race/ethnicity: 2009–10 SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Dropout and Completion Data File," 2009-10.

4. Averaged freshman graduation rate for public high school students, by state or jurisdiction: 2009–10 SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Dropout and Completion Data File," 2009-10.

5. Public high school event dropout rate for grades 9–12, by race/ethnicity: School year 2009–10 SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "NCES Common Core of Data State Dropout and Completion Data File," School Year 2009–10, Version 1a.

6. This report will be posted on January 22, 2013 at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2013/2013309.pdf For more information on the AFGR and other NCES high school outcome indicators, please visit: http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/pub_dropouts.asp