Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table 20-Percentage of 1988 eighth graders never enrolled in postsecondary education by race-ethnicity, by high school completion status, spring 1994

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                                         Asian/                  Black,      White,
                                        Pacific                   non-        non-       Native
                               Total    Islander    Hispanic    Hispanic    Hispanic    American
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    Total                      37.4      19.7         48.9        47.3        34.1        66.4

High school completion status
  High school graduate         26.7      14.2         33.1        33.6        25.2        51.2
  GED/certificate              67.2       -           67.5        73.9        65.4         -
  Still enrolled               89.4       -           95.0        94.4        86.2         -
  Dropout                      93.5       -           98.1        77.1        96.1         -
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-Insufficient sample size to compute reliable estimate.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, Third Followup Survey, 1994, unpublished data.

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