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

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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
Selected characteristic	Percent of schools with 12th-graders in 2008–09	Number of 2008–09 graduates	2008–09 graduation rate¹	Percent of 2008–09 graduates who attended 4-year colleges by fall 2009




Total	26.2	308,812.9	98.1	63.9

Private school typology
Catholic	18.9	149,669.0	99.4	84.9
Parochial	6.7	18,626.3	99.5	84.0
Diocesan	18.4	64,943.2	99.3	83.9
Private	56.8	66,099.5	99.5	86.1

Other religious	31.5	94,188.8	98.1	61.3
Conservative Christian	51.0	36,584.4	98.3	61.4
Other affiliated	28.0	27,221.1	98.3	69.9
Unaffiliated	21.7	30,383.2	97.5	57.2

Nonsectarian	23.3	64,955.1	95.0	57.2
Regular	22.4	51,803.2	98.7	78.7
Special emphasis	14.6	7,842.4	87.9	52.0
Special education	47.1	5,309.5	76.5	21.6

School level
Elementary	†	†	†	†
Secondary	91.1	183,040.6	98.7	69.9
Combined²	67.4	125,772.3	97.1	61.4

Program emphasis
Regular elementary/secondary	31.0	288,539.3	98.9	69.4
Montessori	1.1	362.5	98.5	76.4
Special program emphasis	30.9	7,009.4	98.4	74.7
Special education	45.7	5,730.2	76.6	22.1
Vocational/technical	‡	‡	‡	‡
Alternative	46.2	7,091.9	85.9	40.7
Early childhood	†	†	†	†

Size (number of students)
Less than 50	13.9	7,926.7	86.4	39.6
50–149	31.3	25,312.5	91.5	55.0
150–299	29.2	43,751.7	98.1	72.8
300–499	40.9	59,166.0	99.1	83.9
500–749	63.6	64,047.0	99.3	87.5
750 or more	91.6	108,609.0	99.4	89.8

Region
Northeast	24.1	88,929.0	98.0	65.1
Midwest	19.8	66,437.9	98.0	68.6
South	33.5	97,731.7	98.5	63.7
West	25.2	55,714.3	97.5	58.4

Urbanicity type
City	26.5	140,843.3	98.4	68.9
Suburban	23.6	111,930.9	97.9	65.2
Town	24.5	15,386.1	98.2	59.9
Rural	30.5	40,652.5	97.2	57.7
† 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.