Year seven students arrive to Elevation Secondary College in Craigieburn, Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 12, 2020. (AAP Image/James Ross) Australia’s school retention rate has dropped to the lowest level in 10 years, with one in five teenagers not finishing high school in 2022.
According to the Productivity Commission report on government services published on June 6, only 79 percent of students from year 10 to year 12 finished high school, the lowest in a decade.
Non-government schools have higher rates of students completing their high school education (87.2 percent) compared to government schools (73.5 percent).
Only less than half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students finished Year 12 in New South Wales (45 percent). But in the Northern Territory, that figure is 42 percent, the lowest among all states and 79.5 percent in the Australian Capital Territory, the highest among all states.Meanwhile, most students from years seven and eight remained in […]
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