States With the Most and Fewest Black Students Who Graduated From High School in 2006

In 2006 there were 371,649 black students who graduated from high school in the United States. They made up 13.3 percent of all students who received high school diplomas in this country that year.

The state of Texas produced the most black high school graduates in 2006 with 32,811. California and Florida had the next-highest numbers of black high school graduates.

There were only 40 black students who received high school diplomas in 2006 in the state of Montana, the fewest in the nation. The states of Wyoming, North Dakota, Vermont, Idaho, and South Dakota each had fewer than 100 blacks who graduated from high school in 2006.

In the District of Columbia, 85.5 percent of all students who graduated from high school in 2006 were black. In Mississippi, 46.5 percent of the 2006 high school graduates were black. In Louisiana, Georgia, Maryland, and Alabama, at least 30 percent of all 2006 high school graduates were African American.