2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report

Table 2.Number and percentage distribution of high school graduates, by selected school and student demographic characteristics: Selected years, 1982–2000

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Characteristic	2000		1998		1994		1990		1987		1982
Characteristic	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Total	2,961,741	100.0	2,862,149	100.0	2,402,750	100.0	2,754,260	100.0	3,096,041	100.0	2,826,790	100.0
Student gender
Male	1,406,685	47.5	1,347,879	47.1	1,173,344	48.8	1,320,397	47.9	1,500,273	48.5	1,352,158	47.8
Female	1,550,201	52.3	1,476,232	51.6	1,225,418	51.0	1,431,375	52.0	1,588,940	51.3	1,474,632	52.2
Not reported	4,854	0.2	38,038	1.3	3,988	0.2	2,488	0.1	6,827	0.2	—	—
Student race/ethnicity¹
White	2,043,439	69.0	1,977,314	69.1	1,715,506	71.4	1,970,338	71.5	2,164,910	69.9	2,110,879	74.7
Black	355,620	12.0	358,111	12.5	269,543	11.2	368,380	13.4	379,576	12.3	297,298	10.5
Hispanic	347,970	11.8	302,205	10.6	178,202	7.4	208,684	7.6	194,438	6.3	319,876	11.3
Asian/Pacific Islander	127,153	4.3	86,317	3.0	85,485	3.6	93,505	3.4	81,154	2.6	40,437	1.4
American Indian	21,132	0.7	12,790	0.5	17,646	0.7	13,891	0.5	24,495	0.8	30,118	1.1
Other	16,942	0.6	2,954	0.1	6,791	0.3	5,559	0.2	3,878	0.1	28,182	1.0
Not reported	49,485	1.7	122,457	4.3	129,576	5.4	93,903	3.4	247,590	8.0	—	—
Student program
Academic	2,106,146	71.1	2,031,663	71.0	1,656,509	68.9	1,767,431	64.2	1,734,769	56.0	1,203,523	42.6
Vocational	92,220	3.1	124,607	4.4	153,710	6.4	286,889	10.4	534,883	17.3	656,046	23.2
Both	611,500	20.7	552,614	19.3	459,134	19.1	446,218	16.2	426,001	13.8	255,872	9.1
Neither	151,875	5.1	153,265	5.4	133,397	5.6	253,722	9.2	400,388	12.9	711,349	25.2
Community type²
Urban	748,551	25.3	886,233	31.0	†	†	†	†	†	†	538,769	19.1
Suburban	1,473,914	49.8	1,091,852	38.2	†	†	†	†	†	†	1,407,458	49.8
Rural	739,277	25.0	884,064	30.9	†	†	†	†	†	†	880,563	31.2
Big city	†	†	†	†	420,340	17.5	386,670	14.0	460,513	14.9	†	†
Urban fringe	†	†	†	†	619,516	25.8	724,963	26.3	868,074	28.0	†	†
Medium city	†	†	†	†	351,691	14.6	326,028	11.8	455,492	14.7	†	†
Small place	†	†	†	†	1,011,204	42.1	1,316,598	47.8	1,311,963	42.4	†	†
School type
Public	2,709,486	91.5	2,611,148	91.2	2,211,353	92.0	2,502,151	90.9	2,798,161	90.4	2,521,055	89.2
Nonpublic	252,256	8.5	251,001	8.8	191,397	8.0	252,109	9.2	297,880	9.6	305,735	10.8
Region of the country³
Northeast	529,442	17.9	528,207	18.5	374,898	15.6	581,449	21.1	711,798	23.0	646,875	22.9
South	1,059,664	35.8	955,960	33.4	941,268	39.2	908,303	33.0	956,334	30.9	876,360	31.0
Midwest	764,643	25.8	741,057	25.9	668,128	27.8	727,294	26.4	863,928	27.9	825,896	29.2
West	607,992	20.5	636,925	22.3	418,456	17.4	537,213	19.5	563,980	18.2	477,659	16.9

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— Not available. Data were not collected.

† Not applicable. The community type definitions used in 1987, 1990, and 1994 differed from the definitions used in 1998 and 2000.

¹ American Indian includes Alaska Native, Black includes African American, Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian, and Hispanic includes Latino. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified.

² Although having similar names, the definitions for the 1982 high school graduates' community type subgroups are not compatible with the definitions for the 1998 and 2000 high school graduates' community type subgroups.

³ "Region of the country" refers to the Census-defined regions. For more information about Census-defined regions, see the U.S. Census Bureau online publication "Census Regions and Divisions of the United States" (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf [1.1M PDF]).

NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), Selected years 1987–2000; High School and Beyond (HS&B), 1982.

Last updated 2 December 2005 (HM)