IMA World Health staff visited 12-year-old Claudy and his family at their home to get a sense of how an average school-age child goes about his day -- walking to and from school, playing with friends, etc.
On average, individuals left school aged 14.8 years (SD = 2.2, range = [0, 28]).
On average, school-aged American children spent 2 5 hours per day watching television [ 9, 10].
For the UK, Oreopoulos 2006, estimates that the compulsory increase in the school leaving age - from 14 to 15 - in 1947 increased the average school leaving age by more than half a year.
"The basic cause for the construction activity is that the average school building age is 50 years old," said Carl Thurnau, director of facilities planning for the state Department of Education.
Figure 6 Average school leaving age by year of birth: England only.
That is vital: on average, pupils arrive in middle schools aged 15 with a three-year learning deficit, says Marcos Magalhães, ICE's founder.
On average, a school age child's disposable lunch creates an estimated 67 pounds of waste per school year.
The average school-leaving age among Travellers is just 12.6 years: these are young people who urgently need to stay in one place to gain an education.
Average school attendance improved steadily among school-age children.
The trial surveyed young people at average age 14 in school, age 16 in school (except for those who had left school at the earliest legal age allowed (age 16) and who were sent a postal questionnaire to their home), ages 18 and 20 via postal questionnaires.
