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Dropout Rates 1999 - 2000
Projected Four-Year Dropout Rates by District
(The projected four-year dropout rate is determined by calculating the cumulative effect of four years of dropping out.)
| District | Class of 1999 Rate (%) | Class of 2000 Rate (%) | Class of 2001 Rate (%) | Class of 2002 Rate (%) | Class of 2003 Rate (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hadley | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Hanover | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Harvard | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Harwich | 12 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 12 |
| Hatfield | 9 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
| Haverhill | 14 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 15 |
| Hingham | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Holbrook | 18 | 9 | 12 | 20 | 5 |
| Holliston | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Holyoke | 19 | 33 | 22 | 26 | 27 |
| Hopedale | 5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Hopkinton | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Hudson | 12 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 10 |
| Hull | 7 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Ipswich | 9 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 10 |
| Lawrence | 23 | 33 | 50 | 53 | 40 |
| Lee | 9 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 8 |
| Leicester | 9 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 6 |
| Lenox | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Leominster | 19 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 16 |
| Lexington | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Littleton | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Longmeadow | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Lowell | 9 | 11 | 28 | 32 | 37 |
| Ludlow | 13 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| Lunenburg | 17 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Lynn | 25 | 16 | 21 | 11 | 12 |
| Lynnfield | 4 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
| Malden | 24 | 13 | 19 | 0 | 16 |
| Manchester | 4 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| Mansfield | 1 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 7 |
| Marblehead | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Marlborough | 9 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 4 |
| Marshfield | 5 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 9 |
| Mashpee | 0 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 8 |
| Maynard | 10 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 14 |
| Medfield | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Medford | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 12 |
| Medway | 7 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Melrose | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Methuen | 11 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
| Middleborough | 7 | 10 | 18 | 10 | 12 |
| Milford | 8 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Millbury | 8 | 26 | 2 | 15 | 9 |
| Millis | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| Milton | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Monson | 10 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 10 |
| Nantucket | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| Natick | 4 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| Needham | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| New Bedford | 32 | 31 | 33 | 31 | 29 |
| Newburyport | 14 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 10 |
| Newton | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| North Adams | 11 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 27 |
| Northampton | 10 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 5 |
| North Andover | 12 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| North Attleborough | 9 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 9 |
| Northbridge | 11 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 6 |
| North Brookfield | 21 | 26 | 11 | 11 | 16 |
| North Reading | 5 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| Norton | 10 | 14 | 24 | 9 | 9 |
| Norwell | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Norwood | 7 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 11 |
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. Some rates are greater than 100 percent because the October 1 enrollment number in each grade was lower than the total number of students that dropped out during the course of the year.