The annual dropout rate as defined by the Maryland State Department of Education is the percentage of students in grades 9 through 12 who leave school before graduation or completion of a state-approved education program for any reason except death. It only includes students who do not enroll in another school or education program during the current year, which runs from July through June.
The Maryland Department of Education calculates the dropout rate by dividing the number of dropouts by the total number of students enrolled.
Overall, 275,384 students were enrolled in Maryland public schools during the 2016-2017 school year. Of those, 2.75 percent (or 7,583 students) dropped out, which is a slight increase from the 2.57 percent of the previous school year.
| School | % of students who dropped out |
|---|---|
| Achievement Academy @ Harbor City High | 29.55 |
| New Hope Academy | 24.35 |
| Renaissance Academy | 17.56 |
| Excel Academy @ Francis M. Wood High | 15 |
| Patterson High | 12.37 |
| Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts | 10.03 |
| Benjamin Franklin High School at Masonville Cove | 10.95 |
| Northwestern High | 10.49 |
| Frederick Douglass High | 9.65 |
| The Reach! Partnership School | 9.84 |
| Digital Harbor High School | 8.81 |
| K.A.S.A. (Knowledge And Success Academy) | 8.58 |
| Reginald F. Lewis High School | 7.12 |
| Independence School Local I | 6.42 |
| Academy for College and Career Exploration | 5.25 |
| Forest Park High | 5.96 |
| Friendship Academy of Engineering and Technology | 5.12 |
| New Era Academy | 5.92 |
| National Academy Foundation | 4.07 |
| Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy | 3.85 |
| Baltimore City College | <= 3 |
| Baltimore Design School | <= 3 |
| Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women | <= 3 |
| Baltimore Polytechnic Institute | <= 3 |
| Baltimore School for the Arts | <= 3 |
| Bard High School Early College | <= 3 |
| Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy West | <= 3 |
| Carver Vocational-Technical High | <= 3 |
| City Neighbors High School | <= 3 |
| Claremont School | <= 3 |
| ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School | <= 3 |
| Coppin Academy | <= 3 |
| Eager Street Academy | <= 3 |
| Edmondson-Westside High | <= 3 |
| George W. F. McMechen | <= 3 |
| Green Street Academy | <= 3 |
| Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High | <= 3 |
| N.A.C.A. Freedom and Democracy Academy II | <= 3 |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar High | <= 3 |
| Western High | <= 3 |
| William S. Baer School | <= 3 |
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