State's high school dropout rate almost 20 percent

08-12-2011

By Jill Tucker/San Francisco Chronicle

Nearly 1 out of every 5 students in California's projected class of 2010 - 18.2 percent - dropped out of high school before graduation day, meaning 94,000 teenagers hit the streets without diplomas, according to data released Thursday. Perhaps more alarming are the 17,000 eighth-grade students who quit before attending a single day of high school, about 3 percent of their class. These numbers are believed to be California's first accurate assessment of the dropout and graduation rates using a data system that tracks individual students over their four-year high school career, according to the state Department of Education. Overall, 74 percent of high school students graduated on time. The remaining 7 percent who didn't graduate or drop out were students still enrolled in school or who earned a general equivalency diploma. (more...)

Also: San Jose Mercury News, Sacramento Bee, San Bernardino Sun

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