Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table 13-Percentage of HS&B 1980 and NELS:88 sophomore cohort dropouts who reported that various reasons for dropping out of school applied to them, by sex and race-ethnicity: 1982 and 1992

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                                            HS&B 1982              NELS:88 1992
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Reasons for dropping out              Total  Male   Female     Total   Male   Female
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School-related:
   Did not like school                30.0   30.2    28.5      42.9    43.6    42.2
   Could not get along
     with teachers                    15.4   19.2    10.9      22.8    24.6    21.1
   Could not get along
     with students                     6.4    6.3     6.5      14.5    17.7    11.6
   Was suspended/expelled
     from school                      10.7   16.1     4.5      15.5    21.6    10.0
   Had poor grades/was
     failing school/1                 31.4   35.0    27.1      38.7    43.4    34.5

Family-related:
   Was pregnant/2                     22.9     -     22.9      26.8      -     26.8
   Got married                        19.9    7.3    34.7      12.1     3.7    19.7
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-Not applicable.

1/In the NELS:88 survey the wording of this item was changed to was failing in school.

2/ Females only.

SOURCES: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School and Beyond study, sophomore cohort, First Followup Survey, 1982, unpublished data. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 First and Second Followup Surveys, 1990 and 1992, unpublished data.

[Table 12]

[High School Completion Rates]