Press Releases - 2013

North Carolina’s innovative schools continue progress in eliminating dropouts

January 10, 2013 - North Carolina's innovative schools continue to demonstrate strong results by ensuring that students stay in school and on track to graduation.

The latest dropout data released today by the State Board of Education show that schools that partner with North Carolina New Schools in 2011-2012 lost comparatively few students. More than a third of the 99 schools that NC New Schools helped support last year had no dropouts from any grade, and eight of every 10 of the schools had no dropouts from 9th grade, when students are most susceptible to quitting school.