The What Works Clearinghouse offers a range of publications that evaluate school and community-based dropout prevention interventions and instructional strategies for middle and/or high schools. Reviewed interventions and strategies are designed to help students complete school and may include services and activities that reduce the impact of those factors which impede progress in school.

Following are specific dropout prevention programs that have been evaluated by the What Works Clearinghouse:

Accelerated Middle Schools are self-contained academic programs designed to help middle school students who are behind grade level catch up with their age peers.

Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS) ALAS means “wings” in Spanish. It is a middle school (or junior high school) intervention designed to address student, school, family, and community factors that affect dropping out.

Check and Connect is a dropout prevention strategy that relies on close monitoring of school performance, as well as mentoring, case management, and other supports. The program has two main components: “Check” and “Connect.”

Financial incentives for teen parents are components of state welfare programs intended to encourage enrollment, attendance, and completion of high school as a means of increasing employment and earnings and reducing welfare dependence.

First things First is a reform model intended to transform elementary, middle, and high schools serving significant proportions of economically disadvantaged students.

New Chances, a program for young welfare mothers who have dropped out of school, aims to improve both their employment potential and their parenting skills.

Project Grad “Graduation Really Achieves Dreams” (GRAD) is an initiative for students in economically disadvantaged communities that aims to reduce dropping out and increase rates of college enrollment and graduation by increasing reading and math skills, improving behavior in school, and providing a service safety net.

Summer Training and Education Program (STEP) is a summer employment, academic remediation, and life skills program intended to lower school dropout rates by reducing summer learning loss and preventing teen parenthood.

Twelve Together is a one-year peer support and mentoring program for middle and early high school students that offers weekly after-school discussion groups led by trained volunteer adult facilitators.

Additional dropout prevention programs have presented research to support their effectiveness. However, some did not meet the What Works Clearinghouse research protocol. Therefore, no reports were generated on these programs. For a full listing go to "All Programs" listing on the What Works Clearinghouse website.