Table 1. |
Percentage of private school students ages 5-17, enrolled in grades 1–12, by poverty status and parents' highest level of education: 2007 |
| Student and household characteristics | Number of private school students in grades 1-12 (thousands) | Percentage | Standard Error of Percentage | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 5,172 | 100.0 | 0.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Poverty status1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Poor | 287 | 5.6 | 1.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Near-poor | 481 | 9.3 | 1.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nonpoor | 4,403 | 85.1 | 1.52 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Parents' highest level of education2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Less than high school diploma or GED | 68 | 1.3 | ! | 0.51 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| High school diploma or GED | 470 | 9.1 | 1.24 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Some college/vocational/technical | 1,119 | 21.6 | 1.53 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bachelor's degree | 1,430 | 27.7 | 1.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Graduate/professional school | 2,086 | 40.3 | 1.97 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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! Interpret data with caution; the estimates are unstable; coefficient of variation is 30 percent or more.
1Poor students are defined as those with household incomes below 100 percent of the poverty threshold; near-poor students as those with household incomes from 100 through 199 percent of the poverty threshold; and nonpoor students as those with household incomes at or above 200 percent of the poverty threshold. 2 GED is General Educational Development. NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Survey, 2007. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
