ABSTRACT
Seventy-eight students were accepted into the boarding program in 1961 and started their secondary studies in the ninth grade. From among about 300 candidates that were not admitted to the boarding program, a comparison group of 78 students of similar ability level and socio-economic background was selected. A follow up study on the boarding group and the candidates comparison group during a period of ten years, provided longitudinal data on the educational attainments of these two groups. The educational opportunity provided by the boarding program at certain levels, such as completion of academic high school or success in higher education is almost twice as much in the boarding group as in the comparison group. As the two study groups were different in sex composition and sex is perceived as an important variable related to continuation of formal studies, the data were also analyzed separately for each sex.
