Large numbers of failure and the risk of educational exclusion

Resumen

The article gives a descriptive analysis of large numbers of school failure in Spanish lower Secondary Education (dropouts, repetition, rates adequacy), particularly in the failure to obtain a graduate degree as well as students who leave school prematurely. We emphasize the regions of Murcia and Andalusia. Also a section is dedicated to the analysis of figures and data, in particular measures to attend to the diversity. Some of these high rates of school failure are not justified in a country with income levels, with good children´s schooling in Primary and Early Childhood Education and with high rates of University population. Therefore, critical appraisals are formulated to reduce it and get closer to an "educational success for all", as the European Union promotes.