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3 Mindanao regions record highest school dropout rate

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COTABATO CITY—Three Department of Education regions in Mindanao recorded the highest student dropout rates in the country last school year, a recent government survey said.

The Philippine Statistics Authority listed the three as Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Central Mindanao (Region 12) and Southern Mindanao (Region 11).

The PSA said ARMM—composed of Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Basilan Sulu and Tawi-Tawi —registered the biggest dropout rate at 14 percent, adding ARMM also submitted the nation’s lowest literacy rate at 72.1 percent.

Region 12—also known as Soccsksargen or South Cotabato, (North) Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and General Santos—had a dropout rate of 12.3 percent while Region 11 ( Davao del Sur, Compostela Valley, Davao del Norte, and Davao Oriental) ranked third with a dropout rate of 12.2 percent.

According to the Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey, ARMM and Regions 11 and 12 “even surpassed the national average of student dropout rate of 10 percent.”

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DepEd noted that ARMM continues to rank lowest among the agency’s 17 regions in the annual National Achievement Test for elementary and high school students, largely attributing it to the region’s unstable peace and order problem.

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