Show I r Dropout St Statistics Released T S The dropout rate in Utah high schools ranged from to in the period from 1963 to 1969 according to a report on dropout statistics released today by the State Board of Education UNDER definitions definitions definitions' of the study the term dropout is used to designate any student who discontinues school for any any reason other than graduation transfer death or release for early admission to college or university university university uni uni- uni- uni work In general it refers to any student who drops out of school before graduation from high school The high school dropout rate is based on the number of students who drop r p out between the time they Enroll in the grade and the time Vime ime they would have graduated from high school THE DROPOUT rates referred referred re re- re- re to above are obtained by calculating the difference between cumulative holding power the percentage of grade enrollees who stay in school to graduate and total enrollment of percent per per- cent Thus the cumulative holding holding holding hold hold- ing power of all Utah schools from rom 1963 64 to 1966 67 was percent For the period from 1964 65 to 19 1967 68 it was percent and for the period from 1965 66 to 1968 69 it was percent percent percent per per- cent again THE POWER for the three periods ranges from a low of in Daggett District for the 1966 69 period to percent for Morgan Tintic Tintic Tintic Tin- Tin tic and South Summit districts districts districts dis dis- dis- dis in selected years The holding power in Davis District was percent from 1964 67 percent in 1965 68 and percent in 1966 69 THE STUDY a also ako I 0 notes that Students who drop out our tend to have poor or failing grades Only eight tenths of one percent are A students while more than half percent have failing grades NEARLY NEARL Y 65 percent of the dropouts were absent 51 days or more That nearly 80 percent of the dropouts were ere enrolled in general education pro pro- grams THE MOST often listed reasons for dropping out were dislike of school percent percent percent per per- cent marriage percent percent percent per per- cent difficulty percent and academic difficulty 99 percent Employment Employment Employment Em was listed by 43 percent and pregnancy by 3 percent |