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minority dropout rate dropped to 0 percent from 4 percent, and fewer eighth-grade students were two or more years over the normal age.
Attendance was up for special education students, elementary aged students and middle school students, but down for high school students and down for the school system as a whole.
The/state uses the percentage of students who miss 10 or fewer days of school to measure attendance. For kindergarten through fifth graders last year that was 75 percent compared to 68 percent the year before. For special education students it was 41 percent compared to 25 percent in 1992-93. For sixth through eighth grades it was
86.9%