Help me please I must write an article and it is my summary: Exist diverse problematics in the educational field, one of the most important and worring is the high level of drop out that it presents in the institutions of higher level, this work shows a proposal to implement a system that predicts the drop out by means of the detection of the most important characteristics in the students, the prediction was carried out using decision trees. Keywords: Drop out of school, characteristics of students, decision trees.