According to an analysis by IDRA, 18% of students who started 9th grade in 2020 left school without graduating last year — a record low attrition rate.
The percentage of Texas high schoolers who left school before graduating dropped to an all-time low last year, according to a study of high school attrition rates by the Intercultural Development Research Association, or IDRA.
According to the nonprofit research and advocacy group, 18% of students who started 9th grade in Texas in the fall of 2020 left school before graduating last year.
That’s the lowest attrition rate IDRA has found since they started calculating it in 1986…