Report Roundup
Dropout Rates
"High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 2007"
Printer-Friendly
Email Article
Reprints
Comments Students living in low-income families are 10 times more likely to drop out of school than those in higher-income families, the National Center for Education Statistics reported last week.
That was one of the findings of an NCES report on high school dropout and completion rates. One of a series of such studies since 1988, the most recent report also found that the average freshman graduation rate—which estimates the proportion of 9th graders at public high schools who receive standard diplomas four years later—was 73.2 percent in 2006.
The report discusses four methods of calculating dropout and graduation rates and presents estimates of those rates for 2007, as well as trends between 1972 and 2007.
Vol. 29, Issue 05, Page 5
Access selected articles, e-newsletters and more!
Viewed
Emailed
Recommended
Commented
Sponsored Whitepapers
• Best Practices in Information Management, Reporting and Analytics for Education
• Smart infrastructure report to get your district ready for future IT needs.
• Integrating Social and Emotional RTI to Improve Student Performance
• Taming the wild west: How America’s third largest school district manages PCs, Macs, and iPads
• Overcoming the Odds: Getting Every Student to College YES Prep Shares Its Success Story
- Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning
- Roanoke City Public Schools, Roanoke, VA
- Principal
- Christ the King Preparatory School, NJ
- Principal
- Amargosa Valley Elementary School, Amargosa Valley, NV
- Elementary Principal Madarin Dual Language Program
- Bellevue School District, Bellevue, WA
- Superintendent
- Round Rock ISD, Round Rock, TX
We encourage lively debate, but please be respectful of others. Profanity and personal attacks are prohibited. By commenting, you are agreeing to abide by our user agreement.
All comments are public.