Drop Out Prevention

Students who drop out earn over $100K less than college graduates and $1 million less than college graduates during their working years. 

People who don't graduate high school are eligible for only 10 percent of jobs.

High school graduates, on the average, earn $9,245 more per year than high school dropouts.

In 2002, the unemployment rate of black people ages 20-24 with no high school diploma was 32%, compared to 6% for those with a bachelor’s degree or higher .

In today’s workplace, only 40% of adults who dropped out of high school are employed, compared to 60% of adults who completed high school and 80% for those with a bachelor’s degree. 

People 25-years old or older without a high school diploma are twice as likely to be living in poverty, as compared to 25-year olds or older with a high school diploma.

75% of America’s state prison inmates are high school dropouts (Harlow, 2003). 59% of America’s federal prison inmates did not complete high school (Harlow, 2003).

High school dropouts are 3.5 times more likely than high school graduates to be arrested in their lifetime.