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Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994


Table 21-Percentage of 1988 eighth graders never enrolled in postsecondary education by race-ethnicity, by socioeconomic status and high school completion status, fall 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        34.0        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          -
  Other                           91.8       86.4        97.1        86.2        91.9        97.6
											     
Low SES                           64.2       22.6        59.7        57.0        70.2        87.1
  High school graduates           50.1       15.7        43.2        42.3        57.8        80.0
  GED/certificate                 73.6         -         73.2        70.6        74.3          -
  Other                           94.8         -         96.5        89.8        96.2          -
  												
Middle SES                        37.1       25.3        41.0        43.0        35.8        53.0
  High school graduates           28.6       17.7        28.4        33.7        28.2        35.3
  GED/certificate                 66.7         -         63.7        62.3        68.3          -
  Other                           89.4         -         97.8        80.3        90.0          -

High SES                          11.7        7.1        10.1        33.6        10.3          -
  High school graduates8.0         6.8        8.2        10.3         7.9          -           -
  GED/certificate                 58.6         -           -           -         35.9          -  
  Other                           76.9         -           -           -         75.4          -       
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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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