Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Statistics

University of Missouri Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis

• The State of Our State: Why We Need Community Collaboration (ppt)

Alliance for Excellent Education

• Missouri State Card (pdf)

America's Promise Alliance

• Cities in Crisis 2009:  Closing the Graduation Gap

Education Week

• Graduation Rate Map (interactive tool)
• Diplomas Count 2008:  Missouri profile (pdf)
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• 2007 state graduation brief (pdf)

Northeastern University Center for Labor Market Studies

• The Consequences of Dropping Out of High School: Joblessness and Jailing for High School Dropouts and the High Cost for Taxpayers (pdf)

U.S. Department of Education
Institute of Education Sciences

• Late High School Dropouts: Characteristics, Experiences, and Changes Across Cohorts
• Course credit accrual and dropping out of high school, by student characteristics
• High School dropout and graduation rates in the Central Region (Research In Brief, January 2009)
• High school dropout and graduation rates in the Central Region (Issues and Answers, July 2008)
• Dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2006
• Reports on state high school dropout and completion rates (interactive tool)

How Do I Find?

• Data presented at 2009 Missouri Dropout Prevention Summit
• School Statistics
• U.S. Census Current Population Survey

Email: Dropout Prevention
Phone: 573-751-0857
Last Revised: September 20, 2011