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Connecting Entrance and Departure: The Transition to Ninth Grade and High School Dropout
Abstract
The descriptive data for this urban school system indicate that the modal dropout grade is ninth grade, even though students may have been enrolled in high school for three or even four years. Credit-wise, the largest proportion of dropouts are barely out of the starting gate in high school.