(1) Providing a timely accounting of students who withdraw from school before graduating or completing the normal course of study;
(2) Providing reasons why students withdraw from school;
(3) Identifying patterns in the information and assessment of factors that may assist the department and the school district to develop programs addressing the problems of dropouts; and
(4) Providing school districts with management tools for assessing which students are dropouts and why they drop out. [1991 c.805 §1]