More people are graduating from high school than ever before, but 2.7 percent of ninth graders still drop out during or before the 11th grade. That comes out to approximately 110,000 students in the class of 2013.

There is a wide racial gap in dropout students, with one non-white race the least likely to drop out. The chart below shows high school dropout rates by race, as determined by the National Center for Education Statistics.

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