[Libs-Or] NEW NCES REPORT! - Dropout Rates in the United States: 2004

[Ann Reed]

 NEW NCES REPORT! - Dropout Rates in the United States: 2004


This report builds upon a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports on high school dropout and completion rates that began in 1988. It presents estimates of rates for 2004, and provides data about trends in dropout and completion rates over the last three decades (1972-2004), including characteristics of dropouts and completers in these years.  

Among other findings, the report shows that in students living in low-income families were approximately four times more likely to drop out of high school between 2003 and 2004 than were their peers from high-income families. Focusing on indicators of on-time graduation from public high schools, the averaged freshman graduation rate for the 3 most recent years for which data are available shows an increase from 72.6 percent for 2001-02 to 73.9 percent for 2002-03 to 74.3 percent for 2003-04.

To download, view and print the publication as a PDF file, please visit:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007024



Ann Reed, Federal Programs Coordinator
Oregon State Library
250 Winter St. NE
Salem, OR 97301-3950
phone: (503) 378-5027
fax: (503) 378-6439
ann.reed at state.or.us
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