The U.S. education system provides 12 years of public education, but with the main focus on academics, graduates may not know how to complete the many adulthood tasks required of them when they exit high school. This quantitative study investigated the health, money, home, and travel skills high school graduates from 2010-2020 learned from their U.S. public schools. Each of the four domains included five tasks that adults may need to complete. These tasks found in the literature were used to build the new survey used in this study, The Essential Living Skills Survey for General Academic Students (ELSGAS). The results of the survey showed that for most tasks, a majority of participants did not learn how to complete them during their K-12 education. For the tasks that were covered in the participants' education, most were taught in a single instructional session. Participants also reported how they planned to learn tasks not taught in school and what tasks they felt were most important to be added to the curriculum. Using a series of chi-square tests in SPSS, 12 significant relationships between the demographics and the tasks learned were identified. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]