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percent for the previous year. During the same period, the rate of dropouts for students enrolled in city high schools decreased from 5.9 to 5.4 percent.
TTie 1968-69 dropout rate foi counties and cities ranged from s high of nine percent in Page County to a low of 1.9 percent in Fairfax and Mathews counties. Norfolk City had the second highest rate with 7.8 percent, followed by Greensville and Powhatan counties, both with 7.6 percent. The second lowest rates were recorded in King William County and Waynesboro City, each with 2.3 percent.
Fairfax and King William counties and Waynesboro City were listed as repeaters among localities with the lowest dropout rates. Powhatan County was the only repeater among the school divisions with the highesl percentage of dropouts.
Service News
Aviation Fire Control Technician Third Class David E. Palmer, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Palmer of Washington, is serving with Attack Squadron Seventy-five (VA-75) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga in the Mediterranean.
VA-75 flies the highly
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