The Migrant Education Region 1 of the Santa Clara County Office of Education organized a project to examine the conditions of 1454 migrant students in a sample of northern California schools. The project had two primary components: (1) the collection and analysis of information about migrant students, their family and school situations, and their schools' migrant education programs in order to identify the primary factors contributing to high dropout rates; and (2) the examination of the identified factors in order to suggest strategies to ameliorate the problems faced by migrant students. A causal model of the dropout process that identified the interrelationships existing among the characteristics of dropouts was developed. The underlying assumption of this model is that student performance on measures such as test scores, grade point average, absence rate, and discipline problems is strongly related to whether or not a student will drop out of school. The findings of the project strongly suggest that the number of migrant students graduating from high school is positively associated with the following factors: student participation in extracurricular activities; affective student measures (such as positive student attitudes toward education and locus of control); bilingual instruction; Hispanic staff; and parental support for education and home-school relations. The educational prospects for migrant students could be improved by undertaking such strategies as increasing parental involvement, improving staff training, setting up a student monitoring system, providing counseling, tutoring, and homework assistance, and encouraging extracurricular activities. Appendices include copies of the student data sheets, the school climate survey, and the elementary school survey. This report includes 16 references. (ALL)