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Despite several decades of efforts to reduce dropout rates in Massachusetts, the percent of student leaving public school each year prior to earning a high school diploma continues to be persistent. Over the last ten years an average of roughly 10,000 of Massachusetts high school students dropped out of school annually. Massachusetts dropout rates are disproportionately high among Hispanic and Black or African-American students, students from low-income families, limited English proficient students, and special education students.
The Department recognizes that dropout reduction is not about one single program or initiative. Dropout reduction is very complex and does not lend itself to easy or quick fixes. Effective dropout prevention, intervention, and recovery must be seen as an adaptable and ongoing process. Significantly reducing the number of students who drop out of school takes a combination of systemic efforts at the community, district, school, classroom, and individual student levels.
This Dropout Reduction site is designed to offer information and resources related to high school dropout prevention, intervention, and recovery in Massachusetts as well as nationally.
Dropout Reduction News
The Graduation and Dropout Prevention and Recovery Commission released a final report on October 21, 2009 – Making the Connection  . The report outlines findings and recommendations on the ten topic areas outlined by the 2008 legislation that formed the Commission.
Please join the Department, the Rennie Center, and the Boston PIC in the forum "Ending the Dropout Crisis: Perspectives from the Graduation and Dropout Prevention and Recovery Commission." The forum will take place on Monday, October 26th from 8:30-10:30 at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston. Please see the registration page for more details and register for this event.
last updated: November 6, 2009
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