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Twenty five percent fail to graduate?? Can that be right?
You are correct, actually the percentage of people in the U.S. finishing high school is 69.7% (2004 numbers), so more than thirty percent fail to graduate. I was citing from my head the number for my state, which is 75.3%. I made the mistake of assuming that Arkansas was indicitive of the country as a whole. Some states do as well as 83% and some as poorly as 50.7%. If you want to explore this further, see the statistics at http://www.higheredinfo.org/dbrowser/index.php?measure=23