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Key Data Points

Topic: Graduation Rate(National)

y High school dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, earn lower wages, havehigher rates of public assistance, are more likely to be single parents, and havechildren at a younger age.1

y Every school day 7,000 U.S. students leave high school never to return.2

y Based on calculations per school day (180 days of school, seven hours each day),one high school student drops out every nine seconds.3

y The dropout rate for students with emotional/behavioral disabilities isapproximately twice that of general education students.4

y Nationwide, only about 52 percent of Hispanic students and 56 percent of African-American students will graduate in four years, compared with 78percent of white students.5

y High school students from low-income families (the lowest 20 percent) were sixtimes more likely to drop out than students from higher income families.Ultimately, about one half of all dropouts never receive a high school credential.6

y Estimates indicate that approximately 30 percent of federal inmates, 40 percent of state prison inmates, and 50 percent of persons on death row are high schoolnon-completers. Moreover, non-completers are 3.5 times more likely than highschool completers to be imprisoned at some point during their lifetime.7

1 - Swanson, C. (2004, December 9). Setting the stage for a national dialogue: Graduation rates and NCLB .Presented at the Alliance for Excellent Education Graduate Rate Symposium, The National Press Club,Washington, DC. Retrieved May 8, 2007, fromwww.all4ed.org/publications/MeasuringGraduationToMeasureSuccess/ChrisSwansonPowerPoint.ppt 2

-Alliance for Excellent Education. (n.d.). The crisis in American high schools. Washington: Author.Retrieved April 20, 2007, from http://www.all4ed.org/whats_at_stake/CrisisInHighSchools.pdf 3

-Reimer, M., &Smink, J. (2005). I nformation about the school dropout issue: Selected facts & statistics.Clemson SC: National Dropout Prevention Center/Network Retrieved April 20 2007 from



y Raising the high school completion rate one percent for all men ages 20 through60 would save the US $1.4 billion annually in crime related costs.8

y Each class of high school dropouts costs the U.S. economy more than $8 billion inincarceration expenses and lost wages per year .17 If the male graduation ratewas increased by only five percent, the U.S. could save $7.7 billion a year throughreducing crime related costs and increasing earnings.9

y In 2009, the unemployment rate for adults without a high school diploma wasnearly twice the general unemployment rate. The median weekly income fornon-high school graduates was more than 25% below that of high schoolgraduates, and over 40% below the national average.10 (seeF igure 1)

F igure 1

y In 1964, a high school dropout earned 64 cents for every dollar earned by an

individual with at least a high school degree. In 2004, the high school dropout earned only 37 cents for each dollar earned by an individual with moreeducation.11(seeF igure 2)

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F igure 2

y In cities with the highest dropout rates, up to 40% of first-time ninth gradestudents repeat the ninth grade, but only 1015% of those repeaters go on tograduate.12

y 40% of dropouts in low-income high schools left after ninth grade, compared to27% in low-poverty districts.13

Topic: Graduation Rate (Duval County)

y 1 in 3 students who begin ninth grade in Duval County this year will not graduate on timeor at all.

y African American students in Duval County are 67% more likely to not completehigh school than White students.14

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y The graduation rate in Duval County last year was 67%15, while the officialdropout rate was only 2.2%. The disappearing rate for students who should

have graduated last year was over 30%. (seeF igure 3)

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Of the students who entered 9th grade in 2006:

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The majority of students who fail to graduate are lost between 9th and tenth grade.

Of the Duval County students entering ninth grade in 2006:

F igure 5

Topic: Community Engagement (Duval County)

y 41%:Percentage of Duval County residents who believe that having a top-rated public education system is the most important issue forJacksonvilles future, according to a recent survey.

y 51%: Percentage of Duval County residents who believe that Jacksonvillevoters are actively engaged with what their school board is doing byregularly attending meetings, watching them on TV, or followingschool board business in newspapers or online.

y 22%: Voter turnout for the 2010 Duval County Primary Election in which

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There are over 123,000 students currently served in Duval County Public Schools.In the 2010 Duval County PrimaryElection, in which three of seven school board

seats were decided, only 118, 317 votes were cast.18(See F igure 6, attached)

Topic: F inancial Issues/Impact (Duval County)

y According to an independent report, DCPS already received far less per pupilfunding than any comparable-sized school district across the country evenbefore the most recent round of budget cuts and was also spending it farmore efficiently (i.e., with less overhead costs and more money going directly tostudents and schools) than any of those other districts.19

y Reducing the dropout rate in Duval County by j ust half would be estimated toproduce20:

o $48 million in increased earnings across those graduates in the average year.

o An additional $36 million in spending and $13 million in investing by thosegraduates for the local economy.o $3 million in increased local tax revenue from those graduates in the average

year.o Increased home sales of $113 million and vehicle sales of $4 million for the

local economy by the midpoint of those graduates careers.o Enough increased spending and investment by the midpoint of those

graduates careers to support 400 new jobs in the area and increase

Jacksonvilles gross regional product by as much as $65 million.

Florida spends 3 times as much per person on inmates in the state prison systemthan on students in the education system. $6,899per pupil on education last year,and $19,469per inmate in the state prisons.21

The per diem allowance for Florida state legislators, for meals and incidentalexpenses alone, is $7,980 per session ($133/day up to 60 days).22 (seeF igure 7 )



F igure 7

Topic: Miscellany

y According to Masten andReed (2002), The best documented asset of resilient children is a strong bond to a competent and caring adult, which need not be a

parent.23

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24- Total population 18 and over: http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_P3&prodType=table. Number of

registered voters and voter turnout for 2010 DCPE: http://duvalelections.com/ERSummary.aspx?eid=45. Survey response estimates based on percentageestimates reported in The Community Foundation¶s Quality for All I nitiati v e Sur v ey of Duv al County Adult Residents February 2011 and US Census estimate of total adult population of Jacksonville.

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