At my club, we saw junior after junior leave the sport after a year or so, sometimes less.
Then two years ago I suggested we set aside specific times, indoor and outdoor, for juniors to all shoot together under supervision. This has resulted in a massive retention of junior members over the last two years. This Tuesday we had over 12 kids shooting at distances up to 60 yards. Some of them are pretty much only recreational archers, but there are at least two with ambitions to get onto the GB squad.
In other words, if you devote the time, resources and effort to build up a junior section, you will. If you don't, you won't.
And most of our kids think archery is very cool indeed.
