high school dropout
Left before graduating
A high school dropout is someone who left secondary school before graduating.
The term carries connotations of limited prospects and poor decisions, though many dropouts later earn equivalency credentials or succeed despite lacking a diploma.
He was a high school dropout who became a millionaire.
The phrase sometimes appears as an adjective: a high school dropout rate of fifteen percent.
- GEDAlternative diploma certification
- quitterOne who surrenders
- expelledOfficially removed or banished
- truantUnauthorized school no-show
- flunkedDid not pass
streets · juvenile · delinquent · uneducated · jobless · minimum wage · fast food · dead-end · struggling · poverty · welfare · manual labor · factory · construction · hustle · street smart · second chance · fresh start
- school dropoutsdropout, dropout rates, dropout prevention, GED, flunk out
high school dropouthigh school graduate
One who completed secondary education
graduate · valedictorian · salutatorian · honor roll student
high school dropoutvaledictorian
Top-ranked graduating student
honor student · straight-A student · star pupil · salutatorian · overachiever
high school dropoutPhD holder
Person with highest degree
college graduate · postgraduate · doctorate · lifelong learner · scholar
higher, highest, highly, highness, school, schools, schooled, schooling, schooler