The data were collected from a north central Kansas rural high school district. Correlations support prior evidence regarding variables. More students drop out of school when the number of absences, the number of days in a school year, and the size of the student body increase. The 5% drop-out rate in the small town sampled was well below the 13% of the smaller cities.
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