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school, the Department‘said, j Of the total city enrollment jof 150,227 students, 7,765 (5.
[a percent) left school. « The figures on dropouts were compiled by the Department’s Division of Educational Research and. Statistics from reports submitted by school superintendents to the agency’s Division of Secondary Education. Prince Edward County, with 432 high school pupils enrolled, had the highest dropout! rate, 12.5 percent. Bath Coun-| ty was next with nine percent j of its 391 secondary school! students dropping out of schoolj Other localities which rank-j ed high in the percentage of i dropouts were Dinwiddie Coun! ty, 8.1 percent of 1,553 sec-1 ondary pupils enrolled; Hope- j well City, 7.9 percent of 1,833! secondary students; and Amherst County, 7.8 percent of 1,660 high school pupils. Localities having the lowest percentage of dropouts during; 1966-67 , compared with the total high school enrollment, were: Highland County, 1.4 percent of 218 students; Falls
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