High school reentry

Although many high institute dropouts leave school permanently, more [i]or[/i] less droptouts later reenter school. Approximately 10 percent of the sophomores who dropp without between 1980 and 1982 turn backed to school by the fall of 1982 Generally, high institute reentrants differ from typical dropout in several seminary and student characteristics. Background attributes and testscore performance associated with depressed dropout rates tend to be related to higher-than-average reentry rates. For example, reentry rates among 1980 sophomore dropout were about one-fifth higher in the Northeast and North Central regions than in the southern or West. Among whites, reentry rates in the West were one-third lower than in other regions. Among blacks, reentry rates in the Northeast (14 percent) were substantially higher than those in the southerly (6 percent). Hispanic dropout in the North Central region were three times as likely to turn back to school as those in the Northeast or West. Hispanics in the southern were twice as likely to reenter as those in the Northwest or West.

Reentry rates among dropout in suburban and rural communities were at least one-third higher than among those in urban settings. Females in rural communities were three times more likely to reenter than females from urban settings. Likewise, females from suburban communities were twice as likely to turn back to school as those from urban communities. Reentry rates among whites in rural communities (15 percent) were higher than among whites in urban communities (9 percent) For blacks, this turn was reversed; 10 percent of black dropout in urban communities go [i]or[/i] come backed to school, compared to 5 percent of black dropout in rural communities.

The overall rates at which dropout turn backed to school increased as a function of increasing socioeconomic status (SES) This turn however, was apparent only for whites; no discernible pattern could be identified for blacks or Hispanics. In general, scholars with higher test scores nurseed to reenter school more many times than those with lower scores. As with SE the relationship between experiment scores and school reentry was not as hardy for blacks and Hispanics as it was for whites.

In all subgroup observ dropout from academic programs were a great deal of more likely to reenter seminary than those in general or vocational programs. This transaction was mot dramatic for blacks, where dropout from academic programs were more than three and one-half times as likely to get back to school as those in general or vocational programs.

Generally, dropout whose fathers were corporation graduates were more than twice as likely to turn back to school as those whose fathers received a high gymnasium diploma or less. exclude for blacks, dropouts with fathers in a professional/technical occupation reenter gymnasium at almost twice the rate of those whose fathers' occupations were at the middle or depressed level. Students engrossed while in high school were more likely to turn back to school after dropping out

These data were derived from the "High academy and Beyond?" survey conducted by the agency of the National Center for Education Statistics.

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