DataQuest Highlights

In November 2025, the California Department of Education (CDE) released a multitude of 2024–25 reports through DataQuest as part of its annual end-of-year data release. These reports encompass information on graduation rates, chronic absenteeism rates, suspension rates, stability rates, and other data on California's students. The full list of released reports is available through the DataQuest Schedule web page.

To access further information about the above reports, including key takeaways, resources, and highlights from previously released DataQuest reports, select the links below:

Graduation Rate Reports
Chronic Absenteeism and Absenteeism by Reason Reports
Suspension Rate Reports
Stability Rate Reports
Resources
Additional Highlights

2024–25 End-of-Year Reports

Each section below highlights key takeaways from the 2024–25 End-of-Year Reports, focusing on the most important findings of high interest data topics. All data represent information collected from local educational agencies (LEAs).

For a summary of data trends, users can also view the End-of-Year Reports Flyer(PDF).

Graduation Rate Reports

The graduation reports include the four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR), the five-year cohort graduation rate, as well as the one-year graduate and dropout counts disaggregated by demographic information and graduation outcomes. The CDE Graduate and Dropout Data web page provides users with direct access to the latest reports.

Key Takeaways

• The statewide four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR) increased 1.1 percent from 86.4 percent in 2023–24 to 87.5 percent in 2024–25.
• Four-year graduation rates for most race/ethnicity student groups increased from 2023–24, including for Pacific Islander (up 4.1 percent), African American (up 3.6 percent), Hispanic or Latino (up 1.7 percent), American Indian or Alaska Native (up 0.4 percent), Asian (up 0.4 percent), and Filipino (up 0.2 percent).
• Four-year graduation rates for all program participation groups increased from 2023–24, including for Foster Youth (up 3.0 percent), Migrant (2.8 percent), Students with Disabilities (up 2.8 percent), English Learner (1.9 percent), Socioeconomically Disadvantaged (1.8 percent), and Homeless Youth (up 1.5 percent).
• The statewide dropout rate decreased 0.9 percent from 8.9 percent in 2023–24 to 8.0 percent in 2024–25.
• The statewide five-year graduation rate increased 0.3 percent from 88.4 percent in 2023–24 to 88.7 percent in 2024–25.

Chronic Absenteeism and Absenteeism by Reason Reports

The absenteeism data collected from LEAs is compiled to produce the following two reports that are accessible through the CDE Absenteeism Data web page:

• Chronic Absenteeism Report, which displays information for students who are chronically absent. Students are determined to be chronically absent during the academic year if they were absent for 10 percent or more of the instructional days they were enrolled to attend. While a high percentage of performance is often a typical desired outcome, for chronic absenteeism, having a low percentage of students chronically absent is the desired goal.
• Absenteeism by Reason Report, which provides the reason why students were absent based on four different types of absences: excused absence, unexcused absence, out-of-school suspension, and incomplete independent study. Because this report includes students who were absent at least once during the academic year, users can use filters to view the data for students who are chronically absent versus non-chronically absent.
  

Key Takeaways

• The statewide chronic absenteeism rate is 19.4 percent in 2024–25, a continuous decrease from the spike to 30.0 percent in 2021–22.
• Chronic absenteeism for most program participation groups decreased from 2023–24, including for migrant (-0.6 percent), English learners (-1.5 percent), socioeconomically disadvantaged (-1.2 percent), students with disabilities (-1.3 percent), and homeless youth (-1.4 percent).
• Excused absences make up 51.8 percent of the absences by reason in 2024–25, a similar finding to 2023–24 (52.3 percent), 2022–23 (54.7 percent), and 2021–22 (51.3 percent).
• The statewide average days absent is 12.8, a continuous decrease from the spike to 16.7 days in 2021–22.

Suspension Rate Reports

These reports provide both a total count of suspensions, an unduplicated count of students suspended, as well as the percent of students suspended once or multiple times during an academic year. Suspension data are also available by suspension type (in-school, out-of-school), whether the suspension is "defiance only", and available by serious offense categories. The CDE Discipline Data web page provides users with direct access to the latest reports.

Key Takeaways

• The statewide suspension rate dropped 0.4 percent from 3.3 percent in 2023–24 to 2.9 percent in 2024–25.
• All race/ethnicity groups decreased in suspension rates from 2023–24 to 2024–25 (except for Asian, in which there was no change), as well as for all program participation groups and gender types.
• With the implementation of state legislation, defiance only suspensions continued to decline and are now at 0.1 percent statewide in 2024–25.
• There are no substantive differences on type of suspension in 2024–25 by race/ethnicity, program participation, or gender.

Stability Reports

The Stability Rate Report includes a stability rate that is defined as the percentage of all students enrolled during the academic year (July 1 – June 30) who completed a "full year" of learning in one school. Stability and non-stability counts and rates are displayed in the report for schools, LEAs, counties, and the state by demographic information and grade level. The CDE Stability Rate Data web page provides direct access to the latest reports.

Key Takeaways

• The statewide stability rate increased 0.5 percent from 91 percent in 2023–24 to 91.5 percent in 2024–25.
• Elementary and middle school grades are the most stable, with transitional kindergarten through grade eight ranging from 90 percent to 93.9 percent stable.

Resources

Provided below are several CDE web pages and communication links to end-of-year DataQuest topics:

• DataQuest Schedule: Provides an overview of upcoming DataQuest reports expected for release in the coming year.
• DataQuest Update: Informs users about released reports, new reports, downloadable data files, enhancements, changes to DataQuest, and tips on how to use DataQuest.
  

Additional Highlights

The DataQuest Highlights web page is continuously updated with the most recent publicly available DataQuest reports. Please select the link below to access the previous highlighted reports:

• 2024–25 Certificated Staff Reports
• 2024–25 Annual Enrollment Reports