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Dropout Rates 1997 - 1998

Projected Four-Year Dropout Rates by District

	Class of 1997	Class of 1998	Class of 1999	Class of 2000	Class of 2001
District	Rate (%)	Rate (%)	Rate (%)	Rate (%)	Rate (%)
Abington	8	11	6	12	16
Agawam	12	15	13	9	7
Amesbury	11	16	16	8	8
Andover	3	6	5	2	2
Arlington	8	6	5	7	6
Ashland	0	0	1	0	2
Attleboro	25	29	22	19	17
Auburn	5	6	0	2	3
Avon	8	0	5	5	4
Ayer	21	16	18	2	5
Barnstable	20	19	23	20	5
Bedford	5	5	3	1	0
Belchertown	9	10	10	9	13
Bellingham	10	3	6	7	6
Belmont	2	3	6	3	2
Beverly	23	22	24	20	9
Billerica	6	6	6	5	7
Boston	27	29	26	30	31
Bourne	8	12	11	4	7
Braintree	7	5	6	6	8
Brockton	28	30	25	20	13
Brookline	2	1	0	0	0
Burlington	5	1	4	6	6
Cambridge	13	15	13	8	9
Canton	7	3	0	4	9
Carver	13	17	16	14	15
Chatham	10	12	10	12	7
Chelmsford	3	5	2	3	5
Chelsea	40	27	25	14	43
Chicopee	20	14	40	23	21
Clinton	23	13	25	22	19
Cohasset	0	3	0	0	0
Danvers	9	7	11	6	10
Dartmouth	9	3	4	7	10
Dedham	12	15	5	15	13
Douglas	9	7	17	7	1
Dracut	7	7	15	11	3
Duxbury	3	3	1	1	2
East Bridgewater	5	11	12	12	14
Easthampton	18	15	16	20	17
East Longmeadow	5	2	2	1	2
Easton	3	4	3	3	2
Everett	14	13	15	15	17
Fairhaven	17	22	22	19	17
Fall River	23	21	27	16	16
Falmouth	21	17	20	24	12
Fitchburg	13	8	11	12	18
Foxborough	13	6	7	11	4
Framingham	12	14	9	14	15
Franklin	4	8	9	5	7
Gardner	9	10	12	9	9
Georgetown	5	4	4	13	4
Gloucester	15	10	12	9	4
Grafton	10	15	7	15	14
Granby	8	9	11	6	7
Greenfield	27	22	19	22	28
Hadley	5	0	9	5	0
Hanover	2	3	3	3	4
Harvard	1	0	0	0	1
Harwich	11	3	12	6	11
Hatfield	0	0	9	5	3
Haverhill	11	14	14	15	17
Hingham	1	0	3	1	3
Holbrook	10	1	18	9	12
Holliston	1	4	1	1	1
Holyoke	32	29	19	33	22
Hopedale	2	8	5	0	2
Hopkinton	2	6	4	5	2
Hudson	9	11	12	6	13
Hull	3	15	7	15	2
Ipswich	10	10	9	11	8
Lawrence	44	30	23	33	50
Lee	0	7	9	4	6
Leicester	12	22	9	10	9
Lenox	2	0	3	3	2
Leominster	17	18	19	15	12
Lexington	1	7	3	2	3
Littleton	11	0	1	3	3
Longmeadow	0	0	2	0	2
Lowell	12	10	9	11	28
Ludlow	7	10	13	10	8
Lunenburg	19	15	17	10	6
Lynn	32	26	25	16	21
Lynnfield	4	4	4	6	7
Malden	24	25	24	13	19
Manchester	2	5	4	8	8
Mansfield	8	11	1	14	13
Marblehead	2	1	3	1	4
Marlborough	16	11	9	16	9
Marshfield	7	6	5	6	12
Mashpee	--	--	--	1	7
Maynard	14	7	10	10	13
Medfield	1	2	2	0	3
Medford	7	10	8	10	10
Medway	5	4	7	9	7
Melrose	4	3	5	5	3
Methuen	15	5	11	15	6
Middleborough	14	10	7	10	18
Milford	15	12	8	11	15
Millbury	9	8	8	26	2
Millis	5	0	1	3	8
Milton	4	4	4	4	3
Monson	0	6	10	10	13
Nantucket	8	7	4	7	5
Natick	4	6	4	3	8
Needham	1	0	2	2	3
New Bedford	31	33	32	31	33
Newburyport	14	17	14	13	17
Newton	5	4	3	4	4
North Adams	14	11	11	14	13
Northampton	20	5	10	18	13
North Andover	5	4	12	7	9
North Attleborough	10	17	9	17	12
Northbridge	7	5	11	9	5
North Brookfield	15	24	21	26	11
North Reading	2	4	5	2	8
Norton	16	9	10	14	24
Norwell	2	0	2	1	0
Norwood	11	7	7	9	6
Oxford	5	5	2	12	4
Palmer	6	7	5	5	10
Peabody	16	14	14	20	13
Pittsfield	25	21	26	22	19
Plymouth	7	7	11	20	17
Provincetown	12	3	0	0	3
Quincy	6	4	4	6	6
Randolph	17	15	23	8	11
Reading	7	4	5	6	4
Revere	16	15	14	9	18
Rockland	11	12	12	14	10
Rockport	11	9	14	9	20
Salem	18	20	22	23	22
Sandwich	8	4	6	8	9
Saugus	12	11	11	11	17
Scituate	3	3	5	1	4
Seekonk	6	5	5	11	7
Sharon	4	3	2	4	2
Shrewsbury	14	8	8	10	8
Somerset	12	8	6	7	6
Somerville	28	29	22	20	20
Southbridge	34	22	34	26	40
South Hadley	1	4	2	5	6
Springfield	25	37	11	18	17
Stoneham	3	2	3	2	5
Stoughton	12	12	5	5	11
Sutton	5	7	2	16	13
Swampscott	9	8	6	5	3
Swansea	0	8	10	12	8
Taunton	14	9	12	9	13
Tewksbury	9	7	6	12	15
Tyngsborough	4	3	1	0	3
Uxbridge	19	6	5	10	8
Wakefield	9	5	13	2	2
Walpole	1	5	5	2	6
Waltham	14	13	19	12	12
Ware	17	24	16	25	16
Wareham	9	10	12	23	7
Watertown	11	9	7	8	8
Wayland	1	1	1	2	1
Webster	16	16	12	12	27
Wellesley	2	2	3	1	3
Westborough	5	8	4	6	3
West Boylston	0	7	2	6	6
West Bridgewater	15	14	8	13	0
Westfield	16	21	20	11	14
Westford	6	3	2	3	5
Weston	1	1	1	0	0
Westport	13	6	12	16	16
West Springfield	14	14	12	15	19
Westwood	1	2	4	2	1
Weymouth	11	9	11	15	14
Wilmington	4	7	8	9	1
Winchendon	20	21	11	14	13
Winchester	2	1	0	1	0
Winthrop	13	7	4	15	20
Woburn	4	9	4	5	12
Worcester	30	28	27	25	22
Northampton-Smith	10	12	12	6	12
Worcester Trade Complex	18	0	26	3	20
City on a Hill CS	--	--	0	0	2
Sabis International CS	--	--	--	--	0
Lowell Middlesex Acad CS	--	--	58	65	21
Martha's Vineyard CS	--	--	--	0	0
Mass Acad Math & Science	--	--	0	0	0
Northstar CS	--	--	--	42	13
Francis W Parker CS	--	--	--	0	0
Pioneer Valley CS	--	--	--	0	3
Somerville CS	--	--	--	--	0
South Shore CS	--	--	0	24	5
Acton-Boxborough	3	2	5	5	5
Adams-Cheshire	20	16	20	18	16
Amherst-Pelham	13	15	10	13	9
Ashburnham-Westminster	11	7	8	5	3
Athol-Royalston	25	22	18	21	22
Berkshire Hills	6	6	6	8	3
Berlin-Boylston	7	5	5	14	5
Blackstone-Millville	16	16	16	18	14
Bridgewater-Raynham	6	6	5	8	5
Central Berkshire	11	6	5	12	14
Concord-Carlisle	1	2	1	1	2
Dennis-Yarmouth	16	16	20	18	22
Dighton-Rehoboth	6	7	8	6	7
Dover-Sherborn	2	3	0	0	0
Dudley-Charlton Reg	23	20	17	16	11
Nauset	9	5	8	6	7
Freetown-Lakeville	10	13	12	22	15
Frontier	7	5	1	3	5
Gateway	13	5	10	12	17
Groton-Dunstable	12	7	12	5	6
Gill-Montague	16	15	19	20	13
Hamilton-Wenham	3	4	3	3	3
Hampden-Wilbraham	7	7	6	5	5
Hampshire	11	9	6	9	4
King Philip	3	4	8	6	8
Lincoln-Sudbury	2	2	2	1	1
Marthas Vineyard	9	11	9	7	11
Masconomet	6	7	5	9	7
Mendon-Upton	0	4	2	5	0
Mount Greylock	6	6	10	12	3
Mohawk Trail	9	6	17	20	11
Narragansett	14	15	16	13	8
Nashoba	12	7	6	6	3
Northboro-Southboro	5	3	6	7	2
North Middlesex	6	15	13	8	9
Old Rochester	5	1	1	3	3
Pentucket	4	5	5	5	2
Pioneer Valley	16	11	9	4	12
Quabbin	12	9	15	12	14
Ralph C Mahar	15	19	17	24	22
Silver Lake	9	9	3	9	5
Southern Berkshire	6	14	8	6	15
Southwick-Tolland	11	14	9	6	12
Spencer E Brookfield	14	17	19	13	11
Tantasqua	15	11	8	11	7
Triton	6	9	9	8	9
Wachusett	4	4	4	8	4
Quaboag Regional	12	11	15	11	14
Whitman-Hanson	6	10	9	5	6
Assabet Valley	16	16	16	14	15
Blackstone Valley Reg	4	1	0	1	10
Blue Hills Voc	7	0	6	10	6
Bristol-Plymouth Voc Tech	5	7	7	10	6
Cape Cod Reg Voc Tech	18	8	12	19	10
Franklin County	31	7	16	25	11
Greater Fall River	11	5	7	1	5
Greater Lawrence	15	13	13	8	7
Greater New Bedford	7	12	16	29	11
Greater Lowell Voc Tec	11	11	11	11	10
S Middlesex Voc Tech Reg	0	6	7	4	5
Minute Man Voc Tech	4	11	3	6	7
Montachusett Voc Tech	24	16	24	18	13
Northern Berkshire Voc	2	6	3	2	4
Nashoba Valley Tech	14	16	2	8	4
Northeast Metro Voc	5	8	3	11	10
North Shore Reg Voc	14	12	11	14	11
Old Colony Voc Tech	6	10	8	3	4
Pathfinder Voc Tech	4	7	14	13	10
Shawsheen Valley Voc Tech	11	9	9	10	10
Southeastern Reg Voc Tech	15	18	18	3	18
South Shore Reg Voc Tech	20	12	8	9	7
S Worcester County Voc	16	5	8	16	16
Tri County	10	11	12	5	6
Upper Cape Cod Voc Tech	6	11	12	5	22
Whittier Voc	5	8	8	8	10
Bristol County Agr	6	5	1	1	2
Essex Agr Tech	7	12	12	11	7
Norfolk County Agr	6	0	0	5	7

Note: the dropout rate accounts for dropouts who returned to school by the following October 1; data prior to the Class of 1996 did not have this adjustment made and are not comparable to these figures.

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last updated: September 1, 1999

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Information Services Statistical Reports Dropout Rates 1997 - 1998

Projected Four-Year Dropout Rates by District

Information Services Statistical Reports
Dropout Rates 1997 - 1998