LEUSD High School Dropout Rate Lower Than Averages

The class of 2010 at high schools had one of the lowest dropout rates in the county, beating out Murrieta Valley Unified School District and trailing just behind Temecula Valley Unified, according to figures released Thursday by the state Department of Education.

The dropout figures are the first from a new system that tracked students beginning when they started ninth grade in the 2006-07 school year and following them as they left, transferred and sometimes returned.

The LEUSD’s dropout rate was 7.9 percent, well below the state’s figure of 18.2 percent and the county figure of 16.7 percent.

Murrieta Valley Unified was 11.8 percent and Temecula Valley Unified was 5.3 percent.