Study of Dropout Rates

The dropout rate is the percentage of 15- to 24-year-old in grades 10 through 12 who leave high school between the beginning of one school year and the beginning of the next without earning a high school diploma or an alternative credential such as a GED, between years 2014-2018

Dropouts are 16- to 24-year-old who are not enrolled in school and who have not completed a high school program, regardless of when they left school. People who received an alternative credential such as a GED are counted as high school completer.