California reports eighth-grade dropout rate for first time - latimes.com - 0 views
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"We still don't have an accurate way to determine who's dropping out," he said, citing studies that estimate L.A. Unified's four-year high school dropout rate at more than 50%. (The state-calculated dropout rate for L.A. Unified is 26.1%.)
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Rebecca Patterson on 26 Aug 11More California stats. Not pretty.
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Statewide, about 3.5% of eighth-graders — 17,257 in all — left school and didn't return for ninth grade
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Overall, 74.4% of California high school students graduated in four years, according to state data; 18.2% dropped out. The remainder were still in school (6.6%), were in non-diploma programs for disabled students (0.5%) or left high school by taking the General Educational Development (GED) Test (0.4%).
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