Children In Foster Care Have Higher Graduation Rates Than Children Reunified WIth Family

Children in foster care have higher graduation rates than children who are reunified with family. About 84% of adopted children and youth completed high school, compared to about 56% of those who were reunified with family.

These findings were reported in "Permanency and the Educational and Economic Attainment of Former Foster Children in Early Adulthood" by Sarah A. Font, Lawrence M. Berger, Maria Cancian, and Jennifer L. Noyes. The researchers analyzed administrative data from the Wisconsin Multi-Sample Person File (MSPF) of social welfare program data system for the years 2004 to 2015, and also educational attainment data from the . . .