Educational achievements are todays foundation of personal success and the success of the society in general. Because of that, the youth who drop out of the educational system before graduating from high school become exceptionally vulnerable group for which a special care is needed. One’s education is influenced by a lot of different factors which need to be analysed with a multidisciplinary and holistic approach. This paper presents a wide variety of different factors for which an early identification with proper response is needed. They are a foundation of preventive actions on which this paper is based. For a prevention to be successful, action is needed from multiple sides. Actions could be taken on a national level, in the school, on each student individually, on his family, professors, other experts in schools, and on many other actors in the society. The prevention has a substantial meaning for the youth, their future and economic prosperity of the country. It must be treated as a social investment. Netherlands has been taken as an example of good practice which shows great long-term results and is continuously developing future plans and activities for short- and long-term goals. Croatia has lower than average number of youths which drop out of high school. This opens a lot of questions regarding the quality of Croatia’s educational system and many deficiencies which leave room for improvement. This paper tends to activate the development of various educational components, continuous research, analysis of statistics, educational achievements and fixing deficiencies in education with a goal to enable a better future for young people and better development of the country.