What percentage of kids skip school per year?

Answer 1

According to the United States Department of Education, approximately 7,000 students drop out of high school each day.

While the reasons kids drop out vary, the following are six important risk factors:

1. Academic difficulty and failure. Struggling in school and failing classes is one of the main reasons teens drop out, and this pattern often shows up early. Students who fail eighth grade English or math, for example, are seventy-five percent more likely to drop out of high school.

2. Poor attendance. Teens who struggle in school are also absent a lot, and along with academic failure, absenteeism is an important future predictor for dropping out. As with the previous example, students who are absent for twenty percent of their eighth grade year (one day per week) are also highly likely to drop out in high school.

3. Being held back (retention). Linked to academic difficulty, students who are held back and who are older than the kids in their grade also tend to drop out.

4. Disengagement from school. Many kids who drop out say that school was boring and teachers did little to connect learning to real life. They didn't feel invested in their school and they didn't feel that adults seemed interested in them or their high school experience.

5. Transition to a new school. A poor transition from the smaller, more protected environment of middle school to the anonymity of a high school can cause a teen to have difficulty catching up and some kids never do.

6. Other life factors. Pregnancy, family problems, and financial difficulties are all factors that distract a student from schoolwork and make keeping up more challenging.

The good news is that dropping out is easily prevented. Most teens who drop out had at least passing grades, and these kids say that, with some help, they could have completed high school. Parents who are involved in their kids' education often make the difference between academic success and failure. Kids do better when their parents care: when parents make sure their kids get to school and are progressing well and when parents communicate their expectations for success. If problems arise, involved parents have laid a solid foundation for dealing with them. Nationally, there is an aggressive program in the Middle Schools in an attempt to prevent dropouts.

Answer 2

In High School, Most Of The People that has there last year there think that they dont really have to be in school so i will about 3 or 4

Answer 3

On average about 250 per state

Answer 4

1,200 in one state in the U.S