Why HS/HT
Statistics
2008 Florida High School/High Tech Statistics:
- Services were provided in 112 schools and alternative education settings including but not limited to foster care group homes and Department of Juvenile Justice facilities.
- 206 high school students (representing all grades) secured employment.
- The Florida HS/HT Program experienced less than 1% dropout rate compared with the state average of a 5% dropout rate for students with disabilities.
- Florida HS/HT students entered post secondary education at over three times the rate of other Florida graduates with disabilities. 64% of Florida HS/HT graduates entered post secondary education after graduation compared to only 19% of other graduates with disabilities in Florida.
- Out of 305 HS/HT graduates:
- 45 percent chose to attend community college
- 22 percent chose employment
- 5 percent chose to attend a four year college/university
- 8 percent were undecided at the time of the survey
- 10 percent chose to attend a technical school
- 4 percent chose other options
- 4 percent enlisted in the military
- 2 percent continued in high school as 5th year seniors
Information gathered by The Able Trust
Across the Nation:
Out of HS/HT participants that went on the college:
- 93 percent majored in academic programs that led to high tech careers
- 88 percent indicated that HS/HT helped them set solid career goals
- 85 percent reported that HS/HT motivated them in their decision to attend college
- 77 percent acknowledged increased self-esteem because of HS/HT
- 59 percent reported better grades after participating in HS/HT
Information gathered by the Foundation on Employment and Disability
Facts about Youth with Disabilities
While some youth with disabilities have attained successful careers without participating in a transition program, most do not have such a positive experience. A number of facts clearly demonstrate the need to improve transition outcomes for students with disabilities:
- Youth with disabilities, especially those with significant disabilities, often experience poor educational outcomes and desolate prospects for work
- One out of five adults with disabilities has not graduated from high school, compared to less than one out of 10 adults without disabilities
- 57.6 percent of youth with severe emotional disturbances and 36 percent of youth with learning disabilities drop out of high school
- Only 14 percent of youth with disabilities attend postsecondary school, as compared to 53 percent of youth in the general population
- Two years after graduation, more than 70 percent of youth with disabilities are still unemployed
- Only 26 percent of working-age adults with disabilities have a job or own their own business
- People with disabilities are nearly three times more likely than people without disabilities to be living in households with total incomes of $15,000 or less
Information cited from several sources by the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation.
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