Missouri § 160.2710 - Minimum enrollment age — preference given to students receiving certain income-based assistance — transfers to adult high schools, effect on dropout rates.
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§ 160.2710. Minimum enrollment age — preference given to students receiving certain income-based assistance — transfers to adult high schools, effect on dropout rates.
1. Any person who is eighteen years of age or older may enroll in an adult high school if he or she has not earned a high school diploma.
2. An adult high school shall give a preference in admission to those students who receive any local, state, or federal assistance in which a person or family is required not to exceed a certain income level in order to qualify for the assistance.
3. For the purposes of compiling and tracking dropout rates of a local education agency by the department of elementary and secondary education, a student transferring from a local education agency to an adult high school shall be considered a transfer student and not a dropout student from the local education agency.
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(L. 2017 H.B. 93, A.L. 2025 S.B. 68 merged with S.B. 150)
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Source: official Missouri text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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