Tables: Secondary/High School
Table H162. Percentage of fall 2009 public school ninth-graders in 2012 who agree with the statement "Studying in high school rarely pays off later with good jobs," by student, family, and school characteristics: 2012 |
Characteristic |
Number of students |
|
|
Percent1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
3,811,000 |
|
|
31.5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Student sex |
|
|
|
|
|
Male |
1,930,000 |
|
|
33.1 |
|
Female |
1,881,000 |
|
|
29.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Student race/ethnicity |
|
|
|
|
|
White |
1,933,000 |
|
|
24.3 |
|
Black or African American |
541,000 |
|
|
42.5 |
|
Hispanic or Latino |
870,000 |
|
|
41.0 |
|
Asian |
135,000 |
|
|
26.4 |
|
All other races2 |
332,000 |
|
|
33.1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Student mathematics achievement (quintile rank) |
|
|
|
|
|
Lowest fifth |
785,000 |
|
|
49.3 |
|
Middle three-fifths |
2,305,000 |
|
|
30.6 |
|
Highest fifth |
720,000 |
|
|
15.6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Student main activity for fall of 20133 |
|
|
|
|
|
Postsecondary education |
2,832,000 |
|
|
27.0 |
|
Work |
743,000 |
|
|
42.3 |
|
Other |
235,000 |
|
|
47.4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Parent's highest education |
|
|
|
|
|
High school diploma, GED, or less |
1,881,000 |
|
|
36.8 |
|
Associate's degree |
653,000 |
|
|
30.7 |
|
Bachelor's degree |
785,000 |
|
|
26.6 |
|
Graduate/professional degree |
492,000 |
|
|
20.3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Family socioeconomic status (quintile rank) |
|
|
|
|
|
Lowest fifth |
791,000 |
|
|
42.2 |
|
Middle three-fifths |
2,345,000 |
|
|
31.2 |
|
Highest fifth |
674,000 |
|
|
20.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
School locale |
|
|
|
|
|
City |
1,159,000 |
|
|
37.1 |
|
Suburb |
1,269,000 |
|
|
28.5 |
|
Town |
469,000 |
|
|
32.6 |
|
Rural |
914,000 |
|
|
28.1 |
|
1 Percent of students who responded "agree" or "strongly agree" to the statement "Studying in high school rarely pays off later with good jobs." |
2 "All other races" includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and persons of two or more races. |
3 Indicates the one activity that students expect will be their main focus in fall 2013. "Work" includes military service; "Other" includes starting a family, caring for own children, or attending high school or a GED completion course. |
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. |
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) First Follow-up Restricted-Use Data File. |