Costs

How Much is Chronic Absenteeism Costing Your School ?

Number of students in district
Days In school year
Average Daily Attendance (ADA)
Chronic absenteeism rate
Find out your school's chronic absenteeism rate here
Number of chronically absent students
Chronic absenteeism cost
Chronic absenteeism is costing your district at least this much. If most students miss more than 18 days this will cost your district even more.
How Much Do Drop Outs Cost Your School ?
Number of students in district
Number of students in each grade
Drop out rate
(What is your district's drop out rate ? The national average is 6.7%)
Annual drop out
Annual cost of GED classes
Cost of educating GED students
The cost to educate drop-out students each year. Most students take several years
to master all the topics to pass the GED. Students who are chronically absent in 9th grade have 24% to 45% LOWER graduation rates than students with good attendance.
This estimate ONLY includes the direct costs of chronic absenteeism for school districts. It does NOT include the estimated lifetime lost wages for each drop-out of $260,000. It does NOT include additional lost tax revenues of $139,100 per drop out. It does NOT include additional public health expenditures of $40,500 per drop out. It does NOT include the $31,286 annual cost for each inmate as drops outs are 8 times more likely to end up in prison.