Penn Foster offers the current landscape of the American high school dropout crisis and the resulting economic consequences.

1. in hybrid settings
COMBATING THE
DROPOUT CRISIS
THE
CONSEQUENCES
THE
CURRENT LANDSCAPE
AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT RATES
over
1,000,000
every year
7,000
every school day
1 every
26 seconds
THE
PENN FOSTER SOLUTION
As one of the largest high schools in the United States with 43,000 high school students enrolled and over 12,000
graduates annually, Penn Foster is addressing the dropout crisis with online and hybrid high school diploma programs.
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out of OECD countries
In 2009,
the US ranked
USA
for high school
graduation rates
NET FISCAL CONTRIBUTION
generated over their working lives
-$5,200
$287,000
High School
Graduate
High School
Dropout
FOR THE COUNTRY
AVERAGE ANNUAL INCOME
$19,540
$27,380
High School
Graduate
High School
Dropout
FOR THE INDIVIDUAL
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difference of
$292,200
difference of
$7,840
Combatting the dropout crisis with Penn Foster’s online and hybrid high school diploma programs
Penn Foster High School
925 Oak Street
Scranton, PA 18515 USA
HIGHER CHANCE OF
38%
of employers
qualified candidates to fill
CANNOT FIND
OPEN POSITIONS
A high school dropout is
NOT ELIGIBLE
US JOBS
90%
CRIMES
IN THE USare committed by a
HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT
3
4
Dropouts are more than
as likely as high school graduates to
SLIP INTO
POVERTY2X
85% %
200COMPLETION COMPLETIONwhen student has prior credit