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Statistics on children, youth and families in Florida from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Florida Policy Institute
Dropouts 2004/2005 - 2014/2015
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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.
because one or more years have been deselected.
Definition and Source
PROVIDER
Definition
The number of public school students who withdraws from school for any reason cited in statute without transferring to another school, home education program, or adult education program. Dropout classifications used for data collection include, but are not limited to, voluntary withdrawal from school prior to graduation (i.e., after passing the age of compulsory school attendance), failure to meet attendance requirements due to excessive absenteeism, discontinued attendance with whereabouts unknown, and failure to enter/attend school as expected after having registered.
Data Source
Division of Accountability, Research and Measurement, PK-12 Education Information Services, Florida Department of Education, Tallahassee, FL
Notes
Beginning with 2012/13 and 2013/14 data - LNE=Low Number Event - data are suppressed for counties with less than 10 students enrolled in ELL classes.
Beginning with 2014/15 data - an asterisk (*) represents data that are suppressed due to confidentiality.
Last Updated
July 2017