<p>Do you know what the major reason for drop off ? Any stats available ?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Drop off? What do you mean by that?</p>
<p>Do you mean drop out rate???</p>
<p>Sorry. too quick.</p>
<p>I am surprised one school tell me drop out rate is 10%. </p>
<p>money , can't catch up, homesick ....</p>
<p>I wonder if drop out includes getting kicked out.</p>
<p>That would add,</p>
<p>Alcohol, drugs, homesickness, money, poor grades, cutting class, wanting to do something else with their lives.</p>
<p>Several kids will leave boarding school for various reasons, however 10 percent does sound very very high to me.</p>
<p>Does that mean ... not returning for the following year, entering as a freshman and not graduating (transferring out), or leaving mid-year?</p>
<p>All of these certainly occur -- for various reasons. Some of which are school related and some which are not.</p>
<p>The National Association of Independent Schools has some figures for this. <a href="http://www.nais.org/files/PDFs/NAISM...e%5F200607.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.nais.org/files/PDFs/NAISM...e%5F200607.pdf</a>.</p>
<p>2006-7 Average attrition rate for boarding schools: 11.5
Median attrition rate: 8.9</p>
<p>So, some schools have much higher attrition rates than other schools, and the median attrition rate is just under 9%.</p>
<p>Changing schools isn't necessarily a bad thing for the student. How does one account for the students who transfer from one boarding school to another in Junior year, for example? </p>
<p>As a parent, I'm not sure how I feel about schools' relative attrition rates. Would I want my child surrounded by kids who are unhappy at school, but whose parents force them to attend, due to the school's prestige? No. Would I want my child to attend a school with a very low rate, if that low rate were due to the administration turning a blind eye to alcohol use, drug use, and abuse of other students? No.</p>
<p>this is an interesting thread</p>