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PERCENTAGES OF FAILING DROP-OUTS IN EACH AGE GROUP, FOR BOYS AND GIRLS SEPARATELY

AGES 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Boys 0 46 125 228 251 174 103 43 19 Girls 2 38 151 239 241 190 95 26 22

Here it appears that, of all the boys and girls who fail before dropping out, the school loses at the age of 14, for exairls As a e 21 are made to include also the undistributed pupils in Table V

PERCENTAGES OF THE NON-FAILING DROP-OUTS IN EACH AGE GROUP, FOR BOYS AND GIRLS SEPARATELY

AGES 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Boys 24 180 294 271 150 44 23 07 Girls 11 160 296 238 164 86 27 16

These percentages are coe totals in Table VI, just as the ones preceding are computed from Table V It seems worthy of note here that close to 50 per cent of the non-failing drop-outs occur under 16 years of age, for both the boys and the girls; but that the nu pupils who drop out does not reach 20 per cent for the boys or the girls in these same years It is likewise rees for boys and for girls show such slight differences in either of the two groupings

SUMMARY OF CHAPTER II

If to the recorded failures the virtual but unrecorded ones are added, the percentage of failing pupils is 66 per cent This percentage is higher for the boys than for the girls by a difference of 6 per cent

Of the graduating pupils, 581 per cent fail one or raduates 78 per cent are lost froraduates have not lost such a percentage before the end of the third year

The percentage of pupils failing increases for the first four semesters, and lowers but little for two more semesters One third to one half of the pupils fail in each sees and sees 15 to 18 inclusive Thirty-four per cent of the failures occur after the end of the second year, when 522 per cent of the pupils have been lost and others are leaving continuously

Mathees of total failures, and together provide nearly 60 per cent of the failures; but English has a large subject-enrollment to balance its count in failures

Mathees on the nu the subjects

In several subjects the percentages of failure based on the total failures are higher for the graduates than for the non-graduates

For the pupils dropping out without failure thedrop-outs both the e of 17 Nearly 50 per cent of the non-failing drop-outs occur under age 16, but not 20 per cent of the failing non-graduates are gone by that age The percentage of drop-outs is higher for older pupils

REFERENCES:

5 Kelley, TL ”A Study of High School and University Grades, with Reference to Their Intercorrelation and the Causes of Eliy_, 6:365

6 Johnson, GR ”Qualitative Elih School,” _School Review_, 18:680

7 Bliss, DC ”High School Failures,” _Educational Administration and Supervision_, Vol 3

8 Strayer, GD, Coffman, LD, Prosser, CA _Report of a Survey of the School System of St Paul, Minnesota_

9 Meredith, AB _Survey of the St Louis Public Schools_, 1917, Vol