Indicator 12: Drop-out rate by grade level and gender

Table 11
 

The definition of the term “drop out” was revisited in the May 2007 Data Management / EIS workshop discussed earlier. A definition had in fact been produced by PREL representatives in 2004: “if student doesn’t come for 40 days and does not request a transcript, that student is a drop out”. The workshop participants discussed the issues and it was agreed that a completely reliable definition was probably unattainable, though it was stressed to the participants that using a simple “beginning enrolments – ending enrolments”(which at least two states were doing) as an indicator of number of drop outs was not a reliable method.