By Guest Blogger Ellen Wexler
With every year that passes between 5th and 12th grade, the number of students who are engaged in school declines steadily, according to the Gallup Student Poll, released last month.
A majority of elementary school students—almost eight in 10—qualify as engaged, the poll found. By middle school, however, that number drops to six in 10 students. And when students enter high school, it drops to four in 10.
The poll surveyed approximately 500,000 students from 37 states in over 1,700 public schools in 2012. Each year, as we've previously covered, Gallup measures students' levels of engagement, hope, and well-being at any schools that opt to participate. According to Gallup, those three measures account for one-third of the variance in student success.
