Research and Statistics
America's Promise: Cities in Crisis
Cities in Crisis is a study conducted by an independent firm for America’s Promise, which highlights dropout rates of 40-60% in and around large urban environments. For a snapshot of the supporting statistics scroll down to the Changes in Graduation Rates for the Main School Systems in the Nation’s 50 Largest Cities table.
College Summit: High Schools As Launch Pads
A report by College Summit discussing a way to ease the dropout epidemic by making powerful policy changes in high schools, which would create a mental link between students’ studies and future careers. Like College Bound, College Summit recognizes the motivational power of working for a future career.
Dropouts, Diplomas, & Dollars: U.S. High Schools & the Nation's Economy
Independent study done by the Alliance for Excellent Education, which estimates the current and future economic impact of the dropout epidemic nation wide. The estimates range from a national economic cost per dropout of $260,000 to a loss of aggregate potential income for the dropouts of the class of 2008 of $319 billion.
Event Dropout Rate and Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate for 2005-2006
Public school high school event dropout rate and Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate, by region, locale, and district size for 2005-2006. This data demonstrates the large concentration of the dropout epidemic in schools in urban environments, whose averaged graduation rate can be over 20% lower than schools in rural environments.
IES National Center for Education Statistics
Most recent data of event dropout rates nationwide, by state or jurisdiction, and ethnicity ranging from 0.3-28.6%. Event dropout rates measure the percentage of students, grades 9-12, who drop out of school between one October and the next.
Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data
NCES Study presents the number of high school graduates, the average freshman graduation rate, and dropout data for grades 9-12 for public school during the 2006-7 school year.
