The rate at which students withdraw before graduating high school is similar across all races. In 2017, 5.5% of Black students withdrew from school. That same year, the dropout rate was 3.9% among whites, 4.4% among American Indians and Alaska Natives, 4.7% among Asians and 6.5% among Hispanic students.
Socioeconomic status has a higher correlation to dropout rates than race, according to a 2019 report from EducationData.org. Students from low-income families are 2.4 times more likely to drop out of high school than their middle-class peers and ten times more likely to drop out than students with higher socioeconomic statuses.
In 2008, former President Obama stated that children who grow up without a father in their household are nine times more likely to drop out of school, but there is no recent data to support this sentiment.