California Dropout Research Project With….
a short brief looking at California high school dropouts from the class of 2004.
The found that two years later 12% of them were back in school, 54% were working, while 34% were not doing either one of the two.
They also found that only 24% of the high school dropouts made it college. Out of that 24%, 14% of them dropped out, 9% were still in college, and only 1% got a college degree.