Dropout Rate
With only 54% of freshman making it to their senior year, a study released by Johns Hopkins University for the Associated Press in 2007 called Tolman High School one of the nation's 'dropout factories' among high schools. However, students who dropout but go on to receive their GED, transfer students, and students who were held back one or more grades are counted as dropouts. Local officials said that many students from low-income families move between urban districts frequently and some travel back to their home country often adding to the dropout count twice. State statistics however match the findings that fewer than 60 percent of students were retained until senior year. According to the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the graduation rate for Tolman in 2008 was 58.4% with 24.3% dropping out compared to the state graduation rate of 73.9% with 14.9% dropping out.
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