The simple answer is that she disappears. What happens to her exactly is more complicated. The book never fully explains it. Mildred says that she heard that the "whole family moved out somewhere", and that Clarisse was "run over by a car". Beatty hints that girls like her are "better off dead." So, she could have been taken away by the government because she was trouble, she could have ran away, or she could have been killed. The vague rumors that float around about her do help to keep it something that can't be pinned down and blamed though, which is handy if the government did take or kill her.
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