The United States Department of Education’s measurement of the status dropout rate is the percentage of 16 to 24-year-olds who are not enrolled in college and have not earned a high college credential.

Table 1: Calculating Dropout Rates Type of Dropout Statistic. Definition. Example. Relative Value. Event Rate (may also be referred to as the annual rate or incidence rate)

Note that this measure—sometimes referred to as the “status” dropout rate—represents only one of several ways for calculating high college dropout.

Many communities across the Commonwealth have worked hard to create the change necessary to reduce the teen birth rate, yet continued geographic disparities persist.

Precise statistics on dropout rates among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students (LGBT) are difficult to find, although some have estimated that almost a third of LGBT students drop out of high college, more than triple the national rate (Bart, 1998).

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