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On average 20.5% of eighth graders do not return for grade 9; other grades lose 3.0% to 6.4%.
1 · The facts
20.5%
grade 8 leaving rate, mean of 17 years
3.0%
lowest other grade, mean (grade 5)
6.4%
highest other grade, mean (grade 6)
17
of 17 in which grade 8 lost the most
27
eighth graders a year, rate times enrolment (ours)
our estimate
34.7%
grade 8 rate, students with disabilities
19.0%
that group’s lowest year
54.5%
that group’s highest year
—
which school each eighth grader went to
not published
2 · What it shows
1
Grade 8 was the highest-leaving grade in all 17 years DESE publishes.
2
That is about 27 children a year, an implied count rather than one anybody published.
3
Eighth graders with disabilities leave at 34.7% against 20.5% for all students.
4
No published record says where a departing eighth grader went.
Leaving rate by grade
Mean
Lowest year
Highest year
Kindergarten
6.2%
0.9%
16.3%
Grade 1
5.3%
1.7%
11.0%
Grade 2
5.0%
1.6%
10.7%
Grade 3
4.2%
1.0%
8.4%
Grade 4
3.8%
0.9%
7.9%
Grade 5
3.0%
0.9%
4.8%
Grade 6
6.4%
3.5%
11.5%
Grade 7
4.2%
0.7%
7.5%
Grade 8
20.5%
13.2%
28.7%
Grade 9
4.9%
0.0%
8.3%
Grade 10
5.6%
1.0%
9.7%
Grade 11
4.3%
0.9%
7.9%
DESE’s attrition rate: the share of a grade enrolled one year and not enrolled the next autumn. The mean of the yearly rates is our arithmetic.
What was said
“When transitioning from 8th grade to 9th grade the numbers are reduced in the high school band.”