Report: Higher Hispanic Dropout Rate Persists

Hispanic students continue to drop out of high school at rates much higher than those for blacks and non-Hispanic whites, a federal study shows.

Those gaps have persisted since 1972, the earliest year cited in the study by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.

Nearly 9 percent of Hispanics in grades 10 through 12 in the 2000-01 academic year dropped out before the end of the year. By comparison, the rates were 6 percent for black students and 4...