Resource: New state reports on high school performance

The Alliance for Excellent Education has released updated State Cards which provide a summary of vital information regarding the performance of high schools in each state.

To give you some sense of what information is available from these reports, here are some highlights from Ohio's report:

• Approximately 40,700 students did not graduate from Ohio’s high schools in 2007; the lost lifetime earnings in Ohio for that class of dropouts alone are more than $10.6 billion.
• Ohio would save more than $502.1 million in health care costs over the lifetimes of each class of dropouts had they earned their diplomas.
• If Ohio’s high schools graduated all students ready for college, the state would save almost $132.1 million a year in community college remediation costs and lost earnings.
• Ohio’s economy would see a combination of crime-related savings and additional revenue of about $233 million each year if the male high school graduation rate increased by just 5%.

You can download your state report by starting from this page.

You can gather more information drop-out rates on your schools from this page. You can drill down on drop-out rates into individual schools.