What is the annual dropout rate?
The annual dropout rate measures the percentage of students who drop out of Texas public schools in a single school year. A dropout is defined as a student who is enrolled in public school, does not return to public school the following fall, is not expelled, and does not graduate, receive a General Educational Development (GED) certificate, continue school outside the public school system, begin college, or die. The annual dropout rate requires only one year of data and can be calculated for any grade level. It produces the lowest rate of all the rates TEA calculates and is based on individual student-level data. Here is the formula. number of students who dropped out during the school year number of students enrolled during the school year If I’m a high school principal and want to know how many of my students dropped out last year, I would use the annual dropout rate to tell me exactly how many students did not return and from what grades they dropped out.
