New Report Puts Dropout Rate at 25%

One out of four students drop out between 8th grade and high school graduation. That rate is four times higher than official estimates. The new numbers come from a report written by the independent New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies.
When the state released its figures last October, it found the average drop out rate was a little under 6%. But the public policy center’s co-director, Doug Hall, looked at how many students left from the time they first entered high school in ninth grade.
Hall spoke with NHPR’s Jon Greenberg.