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The report details the results of a 2-year followup study of immigrant students in South Australia high schools. The students (n=91) had all been participants in a New Arrivals transitional program, then scattered in different high schools. The study focused on the status, 2 years later, of students leaving the New Arrivals program in the second half of 1983, factors affecting students ' decisions to be where they were, problems and concerns of the students after entering high school, the workforce, or non-employment, their perceptions of their progress in high school or the workforce, student aspirations, and academic performance in compariscn to the average. The report details the study's methodology and summarizes findings in these areas: secondary school retention rate; age-related issues; student movement between high schools; financial support; use of school counseling services; use o