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Jul 28, 2023 · The first transition that Canadian youth will generally make is graduating from high school, and either transitioning to postsecondary studies or into the labour market. Almost all young Canadians eventually make this transition – in 2021, only 5% of Canadians 25 to 34 did not attain a high school diploma.
The reasons why students are dropping out of high school are complex, and can be regrouped in three broad categories (Doll et al., 2013): school-related consequences on attendance or discipline (“push” factors), out of school constraints or incentives (“pull” factors), and “falling-out” factors (student disengagement factors not caused by push or pull factors).
- The Impact of Two Additional Years to Complete High School
- Young Women Have A Higher High School Graduation Rate Than Their Male Peers
- Canada Higher Than The OECD Average For High School Graduation Rate
- The Future of Pandemic-Era High-School Graduation Rates and Beyond
- Definitions, Sources and Methodology
On average across Canada, an additional two years to complete high school has a significant impact on graduation rates. For the cohort that started grade 10 (Secondary 3) in 2015/2016, the proportion who graduated within three years, or ‘on-time’ was 81%. The proportion of this cohort who graduated within five years (the extended high school gradua...
In Canada, a higher proportion of young women (87%) completed high-school on-time than young men (81%) in 2019/2020. This trend was observed in all provinces and territories, and the difference between high school graduation rates for young women and men has been observed in all years of available data. The largest difference in the on-time high-sc...
In 2019, the upper secondary first-time graduation rate for students younger than 25 years of age for Canada was 84%, 4 percentage points higher than the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average (80%)Note . Canada’s high school graduation rate was higher than some OECDcountries such as Iceland (80%) and Belgium (77%), wh...
Since 2016/2017, Canada’s on-time and extended-time high-school graduation rates have increased by 4 and 2 percentage points, respectively. This trend was observed for the majority of provinces and territories, indicating an overall consistent upward trend in high-school graduation rates across Canada. In 2019/2020, on-time high-school graduation r...
This indicator presents the high-school graduation rate, using a true-cohort methodology for students in public and private schools. Since 2018, a true-cohort methodology has been used to calculate on-time and extended-time high-school graduation rates. This pan-Canadian methodology, which uses as its data source administrative data from the provin...
Using Statistics Canada data, Uppall (2017) found that 2016, 8.5% of men and 5.4% of women aged 25 to 34 had less than a high school diploma, which is about 340,000 young Canadians. The cost of dropping out of high school is staggering and creates an achievement gap that can negatively affect youth for the rest of their lives.
Jan 17, 2020 · For example, more than half the people polled believe there are fewer than 30,000 students in Canada at risk of dropping out of high school annually—when the number is ten times that at 300,000. This reflects the number of youth in Canada who are living in poverty and often face significant barriers to education that limit their chances of graduating from high school.
December 16, 2005. The good news is that high school dropout rates have been declining steadily over the past decade. The bad news is that among certain groups – rural and Aboriginal students in particular – the rates are well above the national average. This article will examine what we know about factors affecting high-school completion ...
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Mar 16, 2011 · Taking on the completion challenge: A literature review on policies to prevent drop out and early school leaving. Paris: OECD. Mac Iver, D.J. and M. A. Mac Iver (2009), Beyond the Indicators: An Integrated School-level Approach to Dropout Prevention, The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, Arlington
