The Societal Benefits and Costs of School Dropout Recovery

Table 2

Students who left OFY/OFL Charter Schools in 2006-2007, by destination and number of high school credits earned while enrolled in OFY/OFL.

Student status	N total	Mean credits at enrollment	Mean credits earned
Graduated	1304	93.8	104.6
		69.7 (2)	63.9
Returned to school
Entered with no credits	4367	0.0	21.1
			31.6
Entered with credits	3336	70.0	34.6
		49.0	33.2
Subtotal ret. to sch.	7703
Dropouts	3196	34.4	33.3
		52.4	37.6
Other leavers (1)	1260
Total leavers	13463

(1) Includes illness, child-bearing, overage, expulsion, moved out of country, and other reasons.
(2) Standard deviation.