Scottsbluff Public Schools

The choice to stay in school or to drop out is a life altering decision that can affect your quality of life in many different ways. Here are a few facts:

• High school dropouts are four times as likely to be unemployed as those who have completed four or more years of college.
• High school graduates earn $143 more per week than high school dropouts.
• College graduates earn $336 more per week than high school graduates ($479 more per week than high school dropouts).
• Dropouts are more likely to require public assistance than graduates of high school.
• Dropouts comprise a disproportionate percentage of the nation's prison and death row inmates. 82 percent of prisoners in America are high school dropouts.
• Dropouts live on the average 9.2 years less than someone with a high school diploma.
• 74 percent of students who had dropped out of school said that if they were able to relive the experience, they would have stayed in school.