Data Updates: High School Dropouts and Homelessness

We recently updated two important measures of the well being of California students: homelessness and high school dropouts.

Data from ’09 on high school dropouts, from the California Department of Education, indicate that an estimated one in five public high school students in California (22%) will drop out at some point during high school. These data also are available at the county and school district level. Find data for your school district>>

The data show wide disparities among racial/ethnic groups. The lowest estimated dropout rates are for Asian American and Filipino students (about 10%). African American/Black, Native American, Hispanic/Latino, and Pacific Islander students have the highest estimated dropout rates, at or above 25%.

For homelessness, data are available at the state level and show that about 3% — or nearly 194,000 — public school students in grades K-12 were homeless in 2010. The data source, the National Center for Homeless Education, designates a student as homeless if their primary nighttime residence is a shelter, hotel or motel, a shared space with another family due to economic hardship, or no shelter. Learn more about these data>>

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