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Idaho: High school drop out rate

  • A high school drop out is a person who was enrolled in school at some time during the previous school year but wasn’t enrolled at the beginning of the current year. In addition, he or she has not graduated from high school or completed a state- or district-approved educational program. Finally, he or she has not transferred to another school and is not absent due to suspension, illness, or death.

  • The high school drop out rate, as reported here, is the proportion of students in a given age range who are drop outs in a given year, according to the definition above. Not all districts and states provide drop out information to the National Center for Education Statistics, which is our source for high school drop out rates. For more detail, please see http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/aboutccd.html.

  • High school drop out rates for public school districts in Idaho are shown below. Contact local school district staff if you have questions. For contact information, use the school district locator at http://nces.ed.gov/ccdweb/school/.

  • Beginning with the 2002-2003 school year, the National Center of Education Statistics no longer reports data for school districts enrolling fewer than 1,000 students.
 

High school drop out rate(%)

2005 - 20062006 - 20072007 - 20082008 - 2009
Idaho2.72.62.01.6

To get the most out of this indicator . . .

 

Ask questions:

 

·         Do school districts in your county have high or low high school dropout rates?

·         Are high school dropout rates in your county increasing or decreasing over time?

 

Look at other indicators:

 

·         “County types: County policy type codes” – Is your county classified as a “low education” county?

·         “Education: Educational attainment” – Does your county have high or low levels of educational attainment?

·         “Income and poverty: Reduced price school lunch” – If your county has districts with high dropout rates, do those same districts also have high student poverty rates?

 

Dig deeper:

 

·         Look at the county rankings for your state to see how your county compares to others.

·         If your district is missing high school dropout data, contact your local school district or go to your state’s Department of Education website to find the rate for your district.

·         The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics provides high school dropout rates at the county level.  See http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/bat/. 

·         Take a Big Picture view of your county.

·         If you have specific questions, send us an e-mail.



Note: NA and blank cells = Not Available.

Source: 2005-2006 to 2008-2009: National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), Common Core of Data, Build a Table, (http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/bat/index.asp);
DATE LAST UPDATED: September 26, 2011.



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