The impact of the Early Exit Program (EEP) on Florida schools was studied. Questions asked about those who pass the General Education Development (GED) tests to earn a high school diploma included: (1) whether such students are high achievers who might contribute to a brain drain from the high schools; (2) whether they are low achievers who cannot pass high school courses; and (3) whether they are fairly representative of the general range of high school students. Achievement scores on district level achievement tests were compared to GED tests for 410 students from four Florida districts who passed the GED between January 1981 and May 1983. Those who passed were neither predominantly high or low achievers on the high school tests; they represented the entire range of achievement, with the majority falling in the 40 to 80 percentile range on the district tests. Correlations between the GED tests and district level tests support the notion that the GED tests measure intellectual skills and knowledge that would be expected to have developed in children during their school years. The EEP serves an upper-middle group of students. If a student is failing high school classes because of failure to learn, the EEP will evidently not provide an avenue to an easy diploma. Fourteen tables present study data. (SLD)