UNDERAGE DRINKING STATISTICS

Drinking alcohol negatively affects students' academic performance

• Students with high truancy rates were far more likely than students with low truancy rates to be drinkers or to get drunk.
• Heavy drinkers and binge drinkers ages 12 to 17 were twice as likely to say their school work is poor than those who did not drink alcohol in the past month.
• High school students who use alcohol or other drugs frequently are up to five times more likely than other students to drop out of school.
• Among 8th graders, students with higher grade point averages reported less alcohol use in the past month.
• Students drinking alcohol during adolescence have a reduced ability to learn, compared with those youth who do not drink until adulthood.
• In a national survey of over 55,000 undergraduate students from 132 two and four-colleges in the US, 23.5 percent of students reported performing poorly on a test or assignment, and 33.1 percent said they had missed a class due to alcohol use in the previous 12 months.
• College students who were frequent binge drinkers were 8 times more likely than non-binge drinkers to miss a class, fall behind in schoolwork, get hurt or injured, and damage property

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