[ryanwaggoner]

50% of students drop out of high school!

I don't think this is anywhere close to true on a national basis in the US. Do you have a source for that?

The Dept. of Ed seems to indicate that it declined from 14% in 1980 down to 8% in 2009:

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=16

[startupfounder]

Ryan, You are correct. The graduation numbers are 74.7% nationally, but in DC it is as low as 56%!

(http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/high-school-graduation-r...)

[firefoxman1]

Yeah, do you think he meant college? I don't know what the rate is for college, but high school certainly isn't 50%.