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Dropout Rates 1995 - 1996

1996 Projected 4-Year Dropout Rates by District

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.

District	Class of 1996 Rate	Class of 1997 Rate	Class of 1998 Rate	Class of 1999 Rate
Abington	2	8	11	6
Agawam	12	12	15	13
Amesbury	9	11	16	16
Andover	3	3	6	5
Arlington	3	8	6	5
Ashland	0	0	0	1
Attleboro	24	25	29	22
Auburn	2	5	6	0
Avon	0	8	0	5
Ayer	13	21	16	18
Barnstable	14	20	19	23
Bedford	1	5	5	3
Belchertown	5	9	10	10
Bellingham	8	10	3	6
Belmont	2	2	3	6
Beverly	11	23	22	24
Billerica	3	6	6	6
Boston	27	27	29	26
Bourne	7	8	12	11
Braintree	4	7	5	6
Brockton	30	28	30	25
Brookline	2	2	1	0
Burlington	2	5	1	4
Cambridge	16	13	15	13
Canton	4	7	3	0
Carver		13	17	16
Chatham	5	10	12	10
Chelmsford	2	3	5	2
Chelsea	30	40	27	25
Chicopee	20	20	14	40
Clinton	11	23	13	25
Cohasset	0	0	3	0
Danvers	4	9	7	11
Dartmouth	4	9	3	4
Dedham	3	12	15	5
Douglas	7	9	7	17
Dracut	10	7	7	15
Duxbury	2	3	3	1
EastBridgewater	7	5	11	12
Easthampton	14	18	15	16
EastLongmeadow	3	5	2	2
Easton	2	3	4	3
Everett	18	14	13	15
Fairhaven	11	17	22	22
FallRiver	29	23	21	27
Falmouth	14	21	17	20
Fitchburg	12	13	8	9
Foxborough	6	13	6	7
Framingham	12	12	14	9
Franklin	4	4	8	9
Gardner	11	9	10	12
Georgetown	5	5	4	4
Gloucester	15	15	10	12
Grafton	4	10	15	7
Granby	2	8	9	11
Greenfield	25	27	22	19
Hadley	0	5	0	9
Hanover	2	2	3	3
Harvard	0	1	0	0
Harwich	4	11	3	12
Hatfield	12	0	0	9
Haverhill	13	11	14	14
Hingham	0	1	0	3
Holbrook	2	10	1	18
Holliston	2	1	4	1
Holyoke	28	32	29	19
Hopedale	4	2	8	5
Hopkinton	0	2	6	4
Hudson	7	9	11	12
Hull	5	3	15	7
Ipswich	3	10	10	9
Lawrence	40	44	30	23
Lee	2	0	7	9
Leicester	9	12	22	9
Lenox	1	2	0	3
Leominster	20	17	18	19
Lexington	0	1	7	3
Littleton	1	11	0	1
Longmeadow	2	0	0	2
Lowell	11	12	10	9
Ludlow	6	7	10	13
Lunenburg	7	19	15	17
Lynn	25	32	26	25
Lynnfield	3	4	4	12
Malden	8	24	25	24
Manchester	9	2	5	4
Mansfield	7	8	11	1
Marblehead	1	2	1	3
Marlborough	9	16	11	9
Marshfield	5	7	6	5
Maynard	14	14	7	10
Medfield	0	1	2	2
Medford	5	7	10	8
Medway	2	5	4	7
Melrose	2	4	3	5
Methuen	20	15	5	11
Middleborough	9	14	10	7
Milford	8	15	12	8
Millbury	15	9	8	8
Millis	3	5	0	1
Milton	1	4	4	4
Monson	8	0	6	10
Nantucket	6	8	7	4
Natick	2	4	6	4
Needham	1	1	0	2
New Bedford	36	31	33	32
Newburyport	14	14	17	14
Newton	2	5	4	3
North Adams	15	14	11	11
Northampton	13	20	5	10
North Andover	4	5	4	12
North Attleborough	11	10	17	9
Northbridge	7	7	5	11
North Brookfield	7	15	24	21
North Reading	4	2	4	5
Norton	11	16	9	10
Norwell	2	2	0	2
Norwood	7	11	7	7
Oxford	2	5	5	2
Palmer	6	6	7	5
Peabody	11	16	14	14
Pittsfield	23	25	21	26
Plymouth	7	7	11
Provincetown	12	12	3	0
Quincy	7	6	4	4
Randolph	9	17	15	23
Reading	10	7	4	5
Revere	14	16	15	14
Rockland	6	11	12	12
Rockport	6	11	9	14
Salem	23	18	20	22
Sandwich	4	8	4	6
Saugus	4	12	11	11
Scituate	3	3	3	5
Seekonk	4	6	5	5
Sharon	1	4	3	2
Shrewsbury	9	14	8	8
Somerset	5	12	8	6
Somerville	22	28	29	22
Southbridge	34	34	22	34
South Hadley	1	1	4	2
Springfield	34	25	37	11
Stoneham	4	3	2	3
Stoughton	9	12	12	5
Sutton	4	5	7	2
Swampscott	1	9	8	6
Swansea	9	0	8	10
Taunton	24	14	9	12
Tewksbury	8	9	7	6
Tyngsborough	5	4	3	1
Uxbridge	11	19	6	5
Wakefield	11	9	5	13
Walpole	2	1	5	5
Waltham	11	14	13	19
Ware	18	17	24	16
Wareham	4	9	10	12
Watertown	10	11	9	7
Wayland	0	1	1	1
Webster	11	16	16	12
Wellesley	1	2	2	3
Westborough	5	5	8	4
West Boylston	3	0	7	2
West Bridgewater	15	15	14	8
Westfield	19	16	21	20
Westford	1	6	3	2
Weston	0	1	1	1
Westport	11	13	6	12
West Springfield	16	14	14	12
Westwood	0	1	2	4
Weymouth	10	11	9	11
Wilmington	8	4	7	8
Winchendon	21	20	21	11
Winchester	2	2	1	0
Winthrop	1	13	7	4
Woburn	4	9	4
Worcester	27	30	28	27
Northampton	10	10	12	12
Worcester Trade Complex	17	18	0	26
City on a Hill CS				0
Lowell Middlesex Acad CS				58
Mass Acad Math & Science				0
South Shore CS				0
Youth Build Boston CS
Acton	1	3	2	5
Adams	14	20	16	20
Amherst	13	13	15	10
Ashburnham	9	11	7	8
Athol	16	25	22	18
Berkshire Hills	8	6	6	6
Berlin	3	7	5	5
Blackstone	15	16	16	16
Bridgewater	1	6	6	5
Central Berkshire	8	11	6	5
Concord	0	1	2	1
Dennis	9	16	16	20
Dighton	4	6	7	8
Dover	0	2	3	0
Dudley-Charlton Reg	15	23	20	17
Nauset	9	9	5	8
Freetown	6	10	13	12
Frontier	3	7	5	1
Gateway	10	13	5	10
Groton	8	12	7	12
Gill	13	16	15	19
Hamilton	3	3	4	3
Hampden	4	7	7	6
Hampshire	9	11	9	6
King Philip	5	3	4	8
Lincoln	2	2	2	2
Marthas Vineyard	10	9	11	9
Masconomet	7	6	7	5
Mendon	0	0	4	2
Mount Greylock	5	6	6	10
Mohawk Trail	9	9	6	17
Narragansett	10	14	15	16
Nashoba	4	12	7	6
Northboro	3	5	3	6
North Middlesex	5	6	15	13
Old Rochester	5	5	1	1
Pentucket	4	4	5	5
Pioneer Valley	4	16	11	9
Plymouth	11
Quabbin	14	12	9	15
Ralph C Mahar	17	15	19	17
Silver Lake	9	9	9	3
Southern Berkshire	12	6	14	8
Southwick	10	11	14	9
Spencer E Brookfield	10	14	17	19
Tantasqua	11	15	11	8
Triton	11	6	9	9
Wachusett	8	4	4	4
Quaboag Regional	16	12	11	15
Whitman	8	6	10	9
Assabet Valley	10	16	16	16
Blackstone Valley Reg	8	4	1	0
Blue Hills Voc	6	7	0	6
Bristol-Plymouth Voc Tech	4	5	7	7
Cape Cod Reg Voc Tech	30	18	8	12
Franklin County	33	31	7	16
Greater Fall River	3	11	5	7
Greater Lawrence	15	15	23	25
Greater New Bedford	1	7	12	16
Greater Lowell Voc Tec	11	11	11	11
S Middlesex Voc Tech Reg	8	0	6	7
Minute Man Voc Tech	3	4	11	3
Montachusett Voc Tech	17	24	16	24
Northern Berkshire Voc	1	2	6	3
Nashoba Valley Tech	15	14	16	2
Northeast Metro Voc	6	5	8	3
North Shore Reg Voc	22	14	12	11
Old Colony Voc Tech	6	6	10	8
Pathfinder Voc Tech	11	4	7	14
Shawsheen Valley Voc Tech	9	11	9	9
Southeastern Reg Voc Tech	12	15	18	18
South Shore Reg Voc Tech	10	20	12	8
S Worcester County Voc	11	16	5	8
Tri County	6	10	11	12
Upper Cape Cod Voc Tech	0	6	11	12
Whittier Voc	7	5	8	8
Bristol County Agr	18	6	5	1
Essex Agr Tech	10	7	12	12
Norfolk County Agr	0	6	0	0

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