The Societal Benefits and Costs of School Dropout Recovery

Table 7

Benefit-cost ratios of alternative dropout prevention programs.

Program	Cost per success	Benefit-cost ratio
First things first	$59,100	3.54
Chicago parent-child center	$67,700	3.09
Teacher salary increase	$82,000	2.55
Perry pre-school	$90,700	2.31
Class size reduction	$143,600	1.46
Estimates per Levin et al. [1]
OFY/OFL charter schools	$70,311	3.0
(Dropout Recovery)