To date, there are no more than a dozen community/city level studies of the characteristics of the dropout/graduation rate crisis and to our knowledge no state level studies.

Yet analysis of how many students are dropping out/not graduating in different locales, how far these students are from graduation when they dropout, how dropout/graduation rates vary by student characteristics, and how students who need strong interventions to graduate are distributed across schools are essential if efforts to increase graduation rates are to succeed.

Without this knowledge it will not be possible to know if proposed reforms are sufficient to address the scale and nature of the dropout / graduation crisis or targeted appropriately at the right schools and students.

Everyone Graduates Center researchers are working with both states and cities to build this knowledge base.