Table 38.

Percentage distribution of students ages 5 through 17 attending kindergarten through 12th grade, by school type or participation in homeschooling and selected child, parent, and household characteristics: 1999 and 2003

Selected characteristic	1999								2003
	Public school				Private school		Homeschooled1		Public school				Private school		Homeschooled1
	Assigned		Chosen						Assigned		Chosen
1	2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9
Total	76.1	(0.46)	12.3	(0.32)	10.0	(0.28)	1.7	(0.14)	72.1	(0.57)	15.0	(0.41)	10.8	(0.39)	2.2	(0.18)
Sex of child
Male	76.8	(0.62)	11.9	(0.43)	9.7	(0.34)	1.6	(0.17)	72.1	(0.70)	15.0	(0.56)	10.7	(0.48)	2.2	(0.24)
Female	75.3	(0.58)	12.6	(0.42)	10.3	(0.41)	1.8	(0.19)	72.1	(0.78)	14.9	(0.54)	10.8	(0.51)	2.1	(0.23)
Race/ethnicity of child
White	77.2	(0.56)	9.0	(0.33)	11.9	(0.39)	2.0	(0.19)	72.7	(0.67)	12.4	(0.47)	12.2	(0.48)	2.7	(0.25)
Black	71.7	(1.17)	21.0	(1.14)	6.2	(0.47)	1.0	(0.31)	66.6	(1.49)	23.4	(1.45)	8.6	(0.85)	1.3	(0.42)
Hispanic	77.8	(1.02)	15.9	(0.90)	5.2	(0.40)	1.1	(0.25)	77.2	(1.17)	15.0	(0.99)	7.1	(0.66)	0.7	(0.26)
Other	71.0	(2.14)	16.1	(1.89)	11.0	(1.35)	1.9	(0.65)	67.1	(2.59)	18.7	(1.94)	11.3	(1.61)	3.0	(1.02)
Disability status of child as   reported by parent
Has a disability	77.1	(0.90)	13.1	(0.74)	8.0	(0.49)	1.9	(0.27)	72.4	(1.12)	16.2	(0.75)	9.2	(0.70)	2.2	(0.35)
Does not have a disability	75.8	(0.50)	12.0	(0.32)	10.5	(0.34)	1.7	(0.16)	72.0	(0.67)	14.5	(0.51)	11.3	(0.44)	2.1	(0.21)
Grade equivalent2
Kindergarten through 5th grade	73.7	(0.67)	12.9	(0.46)	11.6	(0.41)	1.8	(0.20)	70.1	(0.70)	16.2	(0.56)	11.8	(0.53)	1.9	(0.23)
Kindergarten	68.1	(1.65)	13.6	(1.06)	15.9	(1.29)	2.4	(0.52)	69.0	(1.50)	15.5	(1.18)	12.8	(1.21)	2.7	(0.64)
Grades 1 through 3	74.5	(0.89)	13.1	(0.66)	10.9	(0.53)	1.6	(0.29)	70.0	(1.18)	16.2	(0.96)	12.1	(0.73)	1.8	(0.28)
Grades 4 through 5	75.3	(1.17)	12.3	(0.81)	10.7	(0.77)	1.7	(0.28)	70.7	(1.12)	16.5	(0.96)	10.9	(0.76)	1.9	(0.35)
Grades 6 through 8	79.1	(0.76)	9.8	(0.59)	9.5	(0.47)	1.6	(0.24)	73.3	(1.03)	14.1	(0.81)	10.2	(0.59)	2.4	(0.36)
Grades 9 through 12	77.5	(0.73)	13.2	(0.56)	7.5	(0.44)	1.7	(0.24)	74.6	(0.97)	13.6	(0.76)	9.5	(0.63)	2.3	(0.33)
Number of parents in the household
Two parents	76.4	(0.56)	10.1	(0.34)	11.5	(0.37)	2.1	(0.21)	71.8	(0.67)	13.6	(0.51)	12.1	(0.47)	2.5	(0.23)
One parent	75.6	(0.75)	16.1	(0.51)	7.3	(0.47)	0.9	(0.16)	72.9	(1.08)	18.1	(0.97)	7.6	(0.67)	1.5	(0.32)
Nonparental guardians	74.2	(2.48)	19.3	(2.44)	5.1	(0.84)	1.4	(0.82)	73.9	(2.88)	19.3	(2.42)	5.9	(1.27)	0.9	(0.74)
Highest education level of parents
Less than a high school diploma	80.7	(1.33)	16.4	(1.39)	2.7	(0.51)	0.2	(0.10)	76.9	(2.06)	18.9	(1.76)	2.9	(1.18)	1.3	(0.73)
High school diploma or GED	80.6	(0.83)	12.7	(0.70)	5.6	(0.44)	1.1	(0.19)	77.8	(1.01)	15.5	(0.89)	4.9	(0.45)	1.8	(0.34)
Vocational/technical or some college	78.0	(0.70)	12.4	(0.58)	7.7	(0.40)	1.9	(0.24)	74.0	(0.97)	15.5	(0.74)	8.3	(0.58)	2.1	(0.36)
Bachelor's degree	70.7	(1.12)	10.6	(0.69)	16.1	(0.76)	2.6	(0.42)	67.0	(1.12)	13.0	(0.89)	17.2	(0.94)	2.8	(0.48)
Graduate/professional degree	67.8	(1.09)	10.6	(0.72)	19.3	(0.82)	2.3	(0.46)	64.2	(1.43)	13.7	(1.05)	19.7	(1.16)	2.5	(0.51)
Poverty status of household
Below poverty	77.0	(1.15)	16.9	(1.02)	4.3	(0.49)	1.9	(0.40)	76.2	(1.35)	17.6	(1.11)	3.6	(0.70)	2.7	(0.65)
Between poverty and 200 percent   of poverty	78.0	(1.10)	13.8	(0.82)	5.7	(0.68)	2.4	(0.49)	75.7	(1.91)	16.3	(1.71)	4.7	(0.83)	3.3	(0.79)
At or above 200 percent of poverty	75.3	(0.49)	10.3	(0.29)	12.9	(0.40)	1.5	(0.13)	70.7	(0.65)	14.2	(0.50)	13.2	(0.50)	1.9	(0.19)
Urbanicity3
Urban	73.2	(0.53)	13.6	(0.36)	11.7	(0.33)	1.5	(0.15)	70.1	(0.61)	15.6	(0.46)	12.4	(0.42)	2.0	(0.22)
Rural	84.6	(0.73)	8.3	(0.57)	5.0	(0.46)	2.2	(0.31)	79.9	(1.35)	12.6	(1.16)	4.6	(0.69)	2.9	(0.55)
Region
Northeast	75.1	(1.00)	11.1	(0.76)	12.6	(0.63)	1.1	(0.30)	71.6	(1.42)	11.9	(1.02)	14.6	(1.03)	1.8	(0.58)
South	77.1	(0.64)	11.6	(0.48)	9.3	(0.43)	2.0	(0.28)	74.2	(0.88)	14.9	(0.72)	8.3	(0.58)	2.6	(0.39)
Midwest	76.5	(0.80)	11.2	(0.66)	10.9	(0.61)	1.4	(0.24)	69.9	(1.27)	14.4	(0.92)	13.8	(1.04)	2.0	(0.37)
West	74.8	(0.97)	15.7	(0.74)	7.5	(0.49)	2.0	(0.34)	71.9	(1.07)	17.9	(0.97)	8.3	(0.59)	2.0	(0.34)

1 Excludes students who were enrolled in school for more than 25 hours a week and students who were only homeschooled due to a temporary illness. 2 Students whose grade-equivalent was "ungraded" were excluded from the grade analysis. The percentage of students with an "ungraded" grade equivalent was 0.03 percent in 1999 and 0.02 percent in 2003. 3 Urbanicity is based on a U.S. Census Bureau classification of places. Urban is a place with at least 50,000 people. Rural is a place not classified as urban. NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent Survey (Parent:1999) and Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey (PFI:2003) of the National Household Education Surveys Program. (This table was prepared May 2007.)