Local schools called 'dropout factories'

A recent report, comment on in the Enterprise, labelled certain schools 'dropout factories.'

Middleboro High School graduated 171 students in June 2007.
An educator told me that 300 students began the graduating class.
If true, that's a 57% graduation rate.

Local schools called 'dropout factories'
By Kyle Alspach, Enterprise staff writer
BROCKTON— An education researcher calls them “dropout factories,” and said high schools in Brockton and Wareham are among them.Bob Balfanz, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University, came up with the term to describe high schools where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year.

http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2007/10/30/news/news/news13.txt