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Show One Out of Four In High School Fail to Graduate More than one out of every four students who enter Utah's high schools fails to graduate. This fact was disclosed this week by Utah Foundation; the private, nonprofit tax research organization. organiza-tion. Foundation analysts point out that public high schools in Utah graduated 8,384 students last year. However, more than 3,000 Utah students who had been, enrolled en-rolled in the tenth grade three years earlier did not graduate in 1954. Of these total drop-outs between' be-tween' the tenth and eleventh grades, 44 occurred between the eleventh and the twelfth grades, and 18 occurred after the student stud-ent had entered the twelfth grade. In 1954 there were 549 Utah high school students who did not graduate grad-uate even though they had been enrolled in the twelfth grade during dur-ing the year. ( |