Texas public schools are losing one out of five students.
Each fall, IDRA releases its attrition study. Attrition rates are an indicator of a school’s holding power, or the ability to keep students enrolled in school and learning until they graduate. Key findings from the 2023-24 study show the following.
- 18% of the freshman class of 2020-21 left school prior to graduating with a high school diploma. This translates to losing more than seven students per hour.
- Texas public high schools lost a total of 66,383 students from the 2020-21 freshman class by 2023-24.
- Texas public high schools have lost a cumulative total of more than 4.2 million students from their enrollment since 1986.
- For the Class of 2024, Latino students and Black students were approximately two times more likely to leave school without graduating than white students – a consistent trend.
It doesn’t have to be this way. This infographic highlights key findings from the study and points to steps we can take to graduate more students.
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