Last Year's Statistics here.

Dropout Rates by Characteristics of Students and Schools (3 Charts)

Across the region, poor students are more likely than non-poor students to drop out (Chart 1 of 3).

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• Outside of the Los Angeles Unified School District, in high schools where fewer than 20 percent of students participate in subsidized meal programs, fewer than 1 percent of those students drop out each year.
• Across the region, in high schools where more than 60 percent of students participate in subsidized meal programs, more than 4 percent of those students drop out each year.
• The overwhelming majority of high school students in the Los Angeles Unified School District are in schools where more than 60 percent of students participate in subsidized meal programs, and more than 5 percent of those students drop out each year.

Students in schools with a high proportion of students who are minorities are more likely to drop out than others (Chart 2 of 3).

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• Across the region, in high schools where fewer than 20 percent of students are minorities, fewer than 1 percent of students drop out each year.
• Across the region, in schools where more than 80 percent of students are minorities, about 3 percent of students drop out each year.
• The overwhelming majority of high school students in the Los Angeles Unified School District are in schools where more than 60 percent of students are minorities, and about 5 percent of these students drop out each year.

With the exception of the Los Angeles Unified School District, students in year-round schools are more likely to drop out than students in traditional schools (Chart 3 of 3).

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• Across the region, about 1.5 percent of students in high schools with traditional calendars drop out.
• Across the region, nearly 4 percent of students in high schools on year-round calendars drop out.
• The disparity is even greater in Los Angeles County, though in the Los Angeles School District, the dropout rate is over 5 percent for schools regardless of calendar arrangements.

Last Updated: January 15, 2004