Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table 27-Median income for 1988 eighth graders not enrolled in educational programs and reporting income, by high school completion status, by socioeconomic status and race-ethnicity: 1994

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  Total                     $8,495        $7,977    $8,981
    High school graduate     8,943         7,979     8,990
    Alternative completer    8,879         7,549     8,804
    Dropout                  6,778         7,876     8,843

Race                                                                    
  Asian/Pacific Islander     7,868         8,364    10,823
    High school graduate     7,907            -      7,755
    Alternative completer       -             -         -      
    Dropout                     -             -         -      
  Hispanic                   7,904         6,995     8,939
    High school graduate     7,922         6,845     8,976
    Alternative completer    7,766         7,521     7,757
    Dropout                  7,920         7,568     7,958
  Black, non-Hispanic        5,846         5,341     4,988
    High school graduate     5,847         5,926     4,969
    Alternative completer    3,157         3,000        -   
    Dropout                  4,666         4,739     5,061
  White, non-Hispanic        8,992         8,160     9,486
    High school graduate     8,999         8,331     9,883
    Alternative completer    8,893         7,991     8,975
    Dropout                  8,828         8,094     8,965
  Native American            7,393         7,926     7,683
    High school graduate     8,626         8,843     8,205
    Alternative completer                                
    Dropout                                              
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-Insufficient sample size to compute reliable estimate.

*/Based on the students' family socioeconomic status as of 1992. The number of high socioeconomic status students who were not in school and working are too few to provide reliable estimates of their median income.

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National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, Third Followup Survey, 1994, unpublished data.

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