Table 13. Percentage of private schools with 12th-graders, number of graduates, graduation rate, and percentage of graduates who attended 4-year colleges, by selected characteristics: United States, 2008–09
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| Total | 26.2 | | 308,812.9 | | 98.1 | | 63.9 | |
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| Private school typology | | | | | | | | |
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| Catholic |
18.9 | | 149,669.0 | | 99.4 | | 84.9 | |
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| Parochial | 6.7 | | 18,626.3 | | 99.5 | | 84.0 | |
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| Diocesan | 18.4 | | 64,943.2 | | 99.3 | | 83.9 | |
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| Private | 56.8 | | 66,099.5 | | 99.5 | | 86.1 | |
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| Other religious |
31.5 | | 94,188.8 | | 98.1 | | 61.3 | |
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| Conservative Christian | 51.0 | | 36,584.4 | | 98.3 | | 61.4 | |
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| Other affiliated | 28.0 | | 27,221.1 | | 98.3 | | 69.9 | |
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| Unaffiliated | 21.7 | | 30,383.2 | | 97.5 | | 57.2 | |
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| Nonsectarian |
23.3 | | 64,955.1 | | 95.0 | | 57.2 | |
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| Regular | 22.4 | | 51,803.2 | | 98.7 | | 78.7 | |
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| Special emphasis | 14.6 | | 7,842.4 | | 87.9 | | 52.0 | |
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| Special education | 47.1 | | 5,309.5 | | 76.5 | | 21.6 | |
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| School level | | | | | | | | |
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| Elementary |
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| Secondary |
91.1 | | 183,040.6 | | 98.7 | | 69.9 | |
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| Combined2 |
67.4 | | 125,772.3 | | 97.1 | | 61.4 | |
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| Program emphasis | | | | | | | | |
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| Regular elementary/secondary |
31.0 | | 288,539.3 | | 98.9 | | 69.4 | |
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| Montessori |
1.1 | | 362.5 | | 98.5 | | 76.4 | |
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| Special program emphasis |
30.9 | | 7,009.4 | | 98.4 | | 74.7 | |
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| Special education |
45.7 | | 5,730.2 | | 76.6 | | 22.1 | |
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| Vocational/technical |
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| Alternative |
46.2 | | 7,091.9 | | 85.9 | | 40.7 | |
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| Early childhood |
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| Size (number of students) | | | | | | | | |
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| Less than 50 |
13.9 | | 7,926.7 | | 86.4 | | 39.6 | |
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| 50–149 |
31.3 | | 25,312.5 | | 91.5 | | 55.0 | |
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| 150–299 |
29.2 | | 43,751.7 | | 98.1 | | 72.8 | |
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| 300–499 |
40.9 | | 59,166.0 | | 99.1 | | 83.9 | |
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| 500–749 |
63.6 | | 64,047.0 | | 99.3 | | 87.5 | |
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| 750 or more |
91.6 | | 108,609.0 | | 99.4 | | 89.8 | |
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| Region | | | | | | | | |
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| Northeast |
24.1 | | 88,929.0 | | 98.0 | | 65.1 | |
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| Midwest |
19.8 | | 66,437.9 | | 98.0 | | 68.6 | |
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| South |
33.5 | | 97,731.7 | | 98.5 | | 63.7 | |
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| West |
25.2 | | 55,714.3 | | 97.5 | | 58.4 | |
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| Urbanicity type | | | | | | | | |
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| City |
26.5 | | 140,843.3 | | 98.4 | | 68.9 | |
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| Suburban |
23.6 | | 111,930.9 | | 97.9 | | 65.2 | |
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| Town |
24.5 | | 15,386.1 | | 98.2 | | 59.9 | |
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| Rural |
30.5 | | 40,652.5 | | 97.2 | | 57.7 | |
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| † Not applicable. |
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. |
| 1 The 2008–09 graduation rate is the percent of 12th graders enrolled around October 1, 2008 who graduated in 2008–09. |
| 2 Includes the schools that reported 12th grade enrollment for 2008–09, but were elementary in 2009–10 (less than 1 percent). |
| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding or missing values in cells with too few sample cases. These estimates include private schools which provide instruction for one or more of grades kindergarten through twelve (or comparable ungraded levels). |
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2009–10.
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