The Office of Research and Evaluation of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) has been monitoring the dropout situation in the AISD since 1983-84. In July 1986, a computerized database, the Secondary Student Longitudinal File, was constructed to enable tracking of the enrollment of any group of students beginning with the 1983-84 school year for high school students and the 1985-86 school year for seventh- and eighth-grade students. Dropout rates are also calculated by ethnicity. This fact sheet provides selected statistical data on trends in dropout rates in the AISD between the 1983-84 and 1988-89 school years. The total dropout rate in 1988-89 in grades 7 and 8 (4.2%) was the lowest it has been since monitoring was initiated. The dropout percentage in 1988-89 for grade 9 was lower than in the preceding year. Longitudinal dropout rates are given for the senior high school 1983-84 cohort and the junior high school 1985-86 cohort. By 1989, 29.8% of students who began secondary school in 1983 had dropped out of school. In the same year, 17.2% of those who had started in 1985 had dropped out of school. Three tables and four graphs provide statistical data. (SLD)