What Age Can You Drop Out of School

Topic:
DROPOUTS; Teaching (General); SCHOOLS (GENERAL);
Location:
Educational activity - (GENERAL);

April 24, 2000		2000-R-0503
SCHOOL DROPOUT AGE
By: Judith Lohman, Principal Analyst

Y'all asked if any states require students to stay in school past age xvi. You as well asked if any states require students to have permission to drop out of school before graduating from high school.

SUMMARY

According to information provided past the Didactics Commission of united states of america (ECS), every bit of March 2000, 22 states and the District of Columbia accept mandatory school ages higher than age sixteen. 9 states crave students to nourish school until age 17. Thirteen states and the District of Columbia require students to stay in school until age xviii. Minnesota will require students to stay in school until historic period 18 starting with the 2000-01 school year.

Virtually all of the states that require students to nourish schoolhouse after age xvi make at least some exceptions. All permit students to leave schoolhouse if they graduate. U.s.a. also commonly allow students to leave before graduation to enter piece of work-study and or other alternative instruction programs.

Vii of united states (Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Maine, New Mexico, and Oklahoma) allow students to drib out of school before historic period 17 or xviii with their parents ' consent. Some too require school authorities to consent to the pupil ' s dropping out and some require the student and his parents to attend a final school leave interview or counseling session.

MANDATORY Attendance PAST Historic period 16

Table 1 below lists the states that, with some exceptions, require students to attend school after age 16:

Tabular array ane: States With Compulsory Omnipresence Ages Over sixteen

State	Maximum Attendance Age
Arkansas	17
California	18
District of Columbia	18
Hawaii	18
Indiana	eighteen
Kansas	18
Kentucky	18
Louisiana	17
Maine	17
Minnesota	eighteen*
Mississippi	17
Nevada	17
New United mexican states	18
Ohio	18
Oklahoma	18
Oregon	18
Pennsylvania	17
South Carolina	17
Tennessee	17
Texas	17
Utah	18
Virginia	eighteen
Washington	18
Wisconsin	eighteen

* Starting in 2000-01

PARENTAL CONSENT REQUIREMENTS

Indiana

Indiana law requires a student to nourish schoolhouse until he graduates or turns 18 unless he is between historic period sixteen and xviii and his parents and the school principal consent in writing to his withdrawal at an exit interview (Indiana Code, Sec. 20-8.one-iii-17).

Kansas

Kansas constabulary allows students to drib out of school before they graduate and before they turn eighteen if they are age xvi or 17 and they accept their parents, guardians, or a courtroom give written consent to their withdrawal.

Before withdrawing from school, the educatee and his parent or guardian must attend a final counseling session by the school at which they must sign a disclaimer urging the child to keep in school or pursue educational alternatives. The disclaimer must include (i) data about the academic skills the pupil has not nevertheless accomplished, (2) the difference in future earning power betwixt a high school graduate and a high schoolhouse dropout, and (3) a list of educational alternatives bachelor to the student (Kan.Stats., Sec. 72-1111).

Louisiana

Land police force requires students to attend school until age 17. Merely it allows a pupil who is 16 to withdraw from school before graduation with the written consent of his parent or guardian (La. Rev. Stats., Sec. 17-221).

Kentucky

Kentucky allows an unmarried student between the ages of xvi and xviii to exit school before graduating from high school only later a briefing with the school chief. The principal must request a briefing with the student ' s parent or guardian and must receive written detect of withdrawal from them. The parent or guardian must too attend a i-hr counseling session with the school counselor on the potential problems facing nongraduates (Ky. Rev. Stats., Sec. 159-010).

Maine

Maine law requires students to attend schoolhouse until age 17 unless they have graduated from high school or are attending postsecondary education full-time. A student may go out school before age 17 if he meets the following weather:

1. he is at to the lowest degree historic period 15 or has completed the 9^th grade,

2. he has his parent ' s permission to exit schoolhouse,

3. he has been approved for a program of suitable work study by the schoolhouse principal,

four. he has permission from the local school lath, and

5. he has agreed in writing with his parents and the school board to meet annually until he reaches his 17^th altogether to review his educational needs (Me. Rev. Stats., Sec. 20A-5001A).

New United mexican states

New Mexico law requires a educatee to attend schoolhouse until he graduates or reaches the age of majority (18) unless he is at least 16 and has been excused by the local school board upon its finding that the educatee volition be engaged in gainful employment or alternative didactics and the student ' due south parent or guardian consents (North.One thousand. Stats., Sec. 22-12-2).

Oklahoma

Oklahoma students must nourish school until they graduate or turn eighteen unless, on or after their 16^th birthday, they are excused from attending by a written agreement between the ambassador of the schoolhouse district and the student ' due south parents or guardian. The understanding must be in the child ' s and the community ' s best interests (Okla. Stats., Sec. 70-10-105).

JL:ts

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Source: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2000/rpt/2000-R-0503.htm