2003 Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude, and Use Survey

Goals

(PPAAUS item 5) Students were asked to choose the ONE option of several possible future goals that was most important to them. The greatest percentage of Franklin County students wanted to go to a four-year college: 66 percent of the sixth through eighth graders and 74 percent of the ninth through twelfth graders. Among middle-school students, 12 percent wanted to go to a two-year college or tech/trade school after high school, six percent wanted to get a job, four percent wanted to go into the military, 12 percent were unsure, and one-half percent thought they would drop out before finishing high school. An average of ten percent of the high-school students wanted to go to a two-year college or trade school, five percent wanted to get a job, three percent wanted to enter the military, and seven percent were uncertain. One percent of the high-school students said they did not want to finish high school.

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