High school graduation rate (4-year adjusted cohort)
Share of public high school students who graduate with a regular diploma within four years of starting grade 9, adjusted for students who transfer in, transfer out, emigrate or die (the 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate, ACGR), as a percentage. From the NCES Digest of Education Statistics, based on state reports to the U.S. Department of Education. The year is the end of the school year (2022 means 2021-22).
States set their own diploma requirements, so rates are not fully comparable between states. 2011-12 rates are published as whole numbers. The national rate covers the 50 states and the District of Columbia; NCES estimates parts of it where a state did not report.
Key facts
- High school graduation rate (4-year adjusted cohort) in the United States was 86.6% in 2022, according to National Center for Education Statistics.
- West Virginia had the highest high school graduation rate (4-year adjusted cohort) of 49 states in 2022, at 91.2%, and District of Columbia the lowest, at 76.4%. Source: National Center for Education Statistics.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 2012 to 2022.
Rankings
US states by high school graduation rate (4-year adjusted cohort), 2022
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Utah
- Oregon
- Oklahoma
- Tennessee
- South Dakota
- South Carolina
Use this data in your AI agent
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Which places have the highest high school graduation rate (4-year adjusted cohort)? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"high_school_graduation_rate_acgr","level":"region","within":"United States"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=high_school_graduation_rate_acgr&level=region&within=United%20States