Anne Sorey

Professor

Math

10 February 2017

High School Dropout Rates

School completion rates have continually increased in the past 100 years, but

unfortunately students that drop out continue to be an issue around in the United States. Based

on data from the Current Population Survey, the status dropout rate decreased from 12.1 percent

in 1990 to 6.5 percent in 2014. Between 1990 and 2014, the male status dropout rate declined

from 12.3 to 7.1 percent, and for females the rate declined from 11.8 to 9.9 for the same years.

Each year the dropout rate was lower for white teens than black teens, and both of those rates are

lower than the Hispanic teenagers. Hispanic youth went from 32.4 percent to 10.6 percent

during the same time period. In most cases, Hispanic youth are more likely to dropout than any

other race.

A recent study for State High School Graduation Rates for All Public School Students,

Low Income Students, and Children with Disabilities show that Wyoming has the most dropouts

for all three sections. For all public schools, Wyoming has a graduation rate of 79.3% to 80%.

Leading Wyoming were the states Wisconsin and West Virginia, with 88.4% to 87%, and West

Virginia being 86.5 to 78%.

In an Educational Longitudinal Study done, they stated ranked reasons for dropouts in

2006. Overall, there were 8 factors of pulling out, and the percentage was 36.9%. 10 factors of

pushed out with a percentage of 48.7, and 3 factors for falling out, with a percentage of 14.3.
These factors went from missing too many school days, to getting pregnant and taking leave.

Ive done a .(this is where Ill put the graph)

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/high-school-graduation-rates-by-state.html

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=16

http://dropoutprevention.org/resources/statistics/quick-facts/why-students-drop-out/