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Predicting School Failure Using Data Mining C. MÁRQUEZ-VERA Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico C. ROMERO AND S. VENTURA University of Cordoba, Spain ________________________________________________________________________ This paper proposes to apply data mining techniques to predict school failure. We have used real data about 670 middle-school students from Zacatecas, México. Several experiments have been carried out in an attempt to improve accuracy in the prediction of final student performance and, specifically, of which students might fail. In the first exper