Virginia Department of Education

1997-98 Dropout Statistics

Dropouts are defined as pupils in grades 7-12 and ungraded pupils
ages 12 and older who withdraw from school for reasons other than
promotion, transfer, death, or graduation, and do not enter another
school during the school year.  Also included are pupils who are in
attendance on the last day of the school year who fail to return to
school by October 31 of the following school year, the "summer
dropout."

 
  End-of-Year    
  Membership Number of   
  Plus Dropouts  Dropouts Percent 
       
COUNTIES      
       
Accomack 2,367 106 4.48%
Albemarle 5,150 147 2.85%
Alleghany Highlands   1,354 25 1.85%
Amelia 860 21 2.44%
Amherst 2,194 59 2.69%
Appomattox 1,109 42 3.79%
Arlington 7,445 160 2.15%
Augusta 5,086 96 1.89%
Bath 398 5 1.26%
Bedford  4,654 98 2.11%
Bland 472 7 1.48%
Botetourt 2,170 64 2.95%
Brunswick 1,135 62 5.46%
Buchanan 2,368 49 2.07%
Buckingham 958 42 4.38%
Campbell 3,794 117 3.08%
Caroline 1,691 45 2.66%
Carroll 1,797 33 1.84%
Charles City 504 14 2.78%
Charlotte 1,045 35 3.35%
Chesterfield 22,423 821 3.66%
Clarke 886 19 2.14%
Craig 301 12 3.99%
Culpeper 2,319 71 3.06%
Cumberland 547 35 6.40%
Dickenson 1,554 52 3.35%
Dinwiddie 1,602 102 6.37%
Essex 713 13 1.82%
Fairfax  68,252 1,701 2.49%
Fauquier 4,134 145 3.51%
Floyd 873 9 1.03%
Fluvanna 1,334 47 3.52%
Franklin 3,108 91 2.93%
Frederick 4,588 218 4.75%
Giles 1,175 50 4.26%
Gloucester 3,061 154 5.03%
Goochland 787 18 2.29%
Grayson 1,013 21 2.07%
Greene 1,118 53 4.74%
Greensville  1,116 42 3.76%
Halifax 2,805 87 3.10%
Hanover 6,661 22 0.33%
Henrico 17,211 524 3.04%
Henry 3,941 85 2.16%
Highland 162 1 0.62%
Isle Of Wight 2,071 28 1.35%
King George 1,294 24 1.85%
King & Queen 397 3 0.76%
King William 770 6 0.78%
Lancaster 779 24 3.08%
Lee 1,901 59 3.10%
Loudoun 9,664 179 1.85%
Louisa 1,812 79 4.36%
Lunenburg 948 54 5.70%
Madison 928 24 2.59%
Mathews 629 11 1.75%
Mecklenburg 2,370 121 5.11%
Middlesex 605 11 1.82%
Montgomery 4,089 141 3.45%
Nelson 1,013 24 2.37%
New Kent 1,023 26 2.54%
Northampton 1,125 38 3.38%
Northumberland 751 36 4.79%
Nottoway 1,130 46 4.07%
Orange 1,752 58 3.31%
Page 1,595 34 2.13%
Patrick 1,240 54 4.35%
Pittsylvania 4,494 258 5.74%
Powhatan 1,357 32 2.36%
Prince Edward 1,075 55 5.12%
Prince George 2,436 63 2.59%
Prince William 22,320 659 2.95%
Pulaski 2,316 98 4.23%
Rappahannock 466 6 1.29%
Richmond 627 19 3.03%
Roanoke 6,584 127 1.93%
Rockbridge  1,647 53 3.22%
Rockingham 4,792 106 2.21%
Russell 2,222 49 2.21%
Scott 1,774 30 1.69%
Shenandoah 2,402 86 3.58%
Smyth 2,355 15 0.64%
Southampton 1,268 43 3.39%
Spotsylvania 7,354 180 2.45%
Stafford 8,184 164 2.00%
Surry 565 10 1.77%
Sussex 661 41 6.20%
Tazewell 3,813 122 3.20%
Warren 1,991 85 4.27%
Washington 3,544 66 1.86%
Westmoreland 898 7 0.78%
Wise 3,686 135 3.66%
Wythe 2,071 69 3.33%
York 5,178 65 1.26%
       
CITIES      
       
Alexandria 4,199 123 2.93%
Bristol 1,050 37 3.52%
Buena Vista 460 13 2.83%
Charlottesville 1,794 43 2.40%
Chesapeake 16,394 471 2.87%
Colonial Heights 1,284 44 3.43%
Covington 420 13 3.10%
Danville 3,612 239 6.62%
Falls Church 706 4 0.57%
Franklin City 750 26 3.47%
Fredericksburg 853 36 4.22%
Galax 551 4 0.73%
Hampton 10,529 506 4.81%
Harrisonburg 1,583 73 4.61%
Hopewell 1,751 88 5.03%
Lexington 102 0 0.00%
Lynchburg 4,330 339 7.83%
Manassas 2,520 38 1.51%
Manassas Park 681 21 3.08%
Martinsville 1,239 22 1.78%
Newport News 13,459 445 3.31%
Norfolk 12,910 794 6.15%
Norton 393 18 4.58%
Petersburg 2,514 130 5.17%
Poquoson 1,248 25 2.00%
Portsmouth 6,859 173 2.52%
Radford 682 16 2.35%
Richmond City 10,336 567 5.49%
Roanoke City 5,256 324 6.16%
Salem 1,837 40 2.18%
Staunton 1,315 68 5.17%
Suffolk 4,430 86 1.94%
Virginia Beach 33,994 1,672 4.92%
Waynesboro 1,231 38 3.09%
Williamsburg  3,237 70 2.16%
Winchester 1,447 56 3.87%
       
TOWNS      
       
Colonial Beach 300 5 1.67%
West Point 370 4 1.08%
       
State 488,776 15,980 3.27%
 
NOTES:
Alleghany Highlands is the merger of Alleghany County and Clifton Forge City.
Bedford County data include Bedford City.
Fairfax County data include Fairfax City.
Greensville County data include Emporia City.
Rockbridge County data include Lexington City data for grades 9-12.
Williamsburg City data include James City County.

Last Updated on 2/2/1999
By Virginia Dept of Education