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(30KB)| Table 39. | Percentage distribution of students ages 5 through 17 attending kindergarten through 12th grade, by school type or participation in homeschooling and selected child, parent, and household characteristics: 1999 and 2003 |
| Selected characteristic | 1999 | 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Public school | Private school | Homeschooled1 | Public school | Private school | Homeschooled1 | |||||||||||
| Assigned | Chosen | Assigned | Chosen | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||||||
| Total | 76.1 | (0.46) | 12.3 | (0.32) | 10.0 | (0.28) | 1.7 | (0.14) | 72.1 | (0.57) | 15.0 | (0.41) | 10.8 | (0.39) | 2.2 | (0.18) |
| Sex of child | ||||||||||||||||
| Male | 76.8 | (0.62) | 11.9 | (0.43) | 9.7 | (0.34) | 1.6 | (0.17) | 72.1 | (0.70) | 15.0 | (0.56) | 10.7 | (0.48) | 2.2 | (0.24) |
| Female | 75.3 | (0.58) | 12.6 | (0.42) | 10.3 | (0.41) | 1.8 | (0.19) | 72.1 | (0.78) | 14.9 | (0.54) | 10.8 | (0.51) | 2.1 | (0.23) |
| Race/ethnicity of child | ||||||||||||||||
| White | 77.2 | (0.56) | 9.0 | (0.33) | 11.9 | (0.39) | 2.0 | (0.19) | 72.7 | (0.67) | 12.4 | (0.47) | 12.2 | (0.48) | 2.7 | (0.25) |
| Black | 71.7 | (1.17) | 21.0 | (1.14) | 6.2 | (0.47) | 1.0 | (0.31) | 66.6 | (1.49) | 23.4 | (1.45) | 8.6 | (0.85) | 1.3 | (0.42) |
| Hispanic | 77.8 | (1.02) | 15.9 | (0.90) | 5.2 | (0.40) | 1.1 | (0.25) | 77.2 | (1.17) | 15.0 | (0.99) | 7.1 | (0.66) | 0.7 | (0.26) |
| Other | 71.0 | (2.14) | 16.1 | (1.89) | 11.0 | (1.35) | 1.9 | (0.65) | 67.1 | (2.59) | 18.7 | (1.94) | 11.3 | (1.61) | 3.0 | (1.02) |
| Disability status of child as reported by parent | ||||||||||||||||
| Has a disability | 77.1 | (0.90) | 13.1 | (0.74) | 8.0 | (0.49) | 1.9 | (0.27) | 72.4 | (1.12) | 16.2 | (0.75) | 9.2 | (0.70) | 2.2 | (0.35) |
| Does not have a disability | 75.8 | (0.50) | 12.0 | (0.32) | 10.5 | (0.34) | 1.7 | (0.16) | 72.0 | (0.67) | 14.5 | (0.51) | 11.3 | (0.44) | 2.1 | (0.21) |
| Grade equivalent2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Kindergarten through 5th grade | 73.7 | (0.67) | 12.9 | (0.46) | 11.6 | (0.41) | 1.8 | (0.20) | 70.1 | (0.70) | 16.2 | (0.56) | 11.8 | (0.53) | 1.9 | (0.23) |
| Kindergarten | 68.1 | (1.65) | 13.6 | (1.06) | 15.9 | (1.29) | 2.4 | (0.52) | 69.0 | (1.50) | 15.5 | (1.18) | 12.8 | (1.21) | 2.7 | (0.64) |
| Grades 1 through 3 | 74.5 | (0.89) | 13.1 | (0.66) | 10.9 | (0.53) | 1.6 | (0.29) | 70.0 | (1.18) | 16.2 | (0.96) | 12.1 | (0.73) | 1.8 | (0.28) |
| Grades 4 through 5 | 75.3 | (1.17) | 12.3 | (0.81) | 10.7 | (0.77) | 1.7 | (0.28) | 70.7 | (1.12) | 16.5 | (0.96) | 10.9 | (0.76) | 1.9 | (0.35) |
| Grades 6 through 8 | 79.1 | (0.76) | 9.8 | (0.59) | 9.5 | (0.47) | 1.6 | (0.24) | 73.3 | (1.03) | 14.1 | (0.81) | 10.2 | (0.59) | 2.4 | (0.36) |
| Grades 9 through 12 | 77.5 | (0.73) | 13.2 | (0.56) | 7.5 | (0.44) | 1.7 | (0.24) | 74.6 | (0.97) | 13.6 | (0.76) | 9.5 | (0.63) | 2.3 | (0.33) |
| Number of parents in the household | ||||||||||||||||
| Two parents | 76.4 | (0.56) | 10.1 | (0.34) | 11.5 | (0.37) | 2.1 | (0.21) | 71.8 | (0.67) | 13.6 | (0.51) | 12.1 | (0.47) | 2.5 | (0.23) |
| One parent | 75.6 | (0.75) | 16.1 | (0.51) | 7.3 | (0.47) | 0.9 | (0.16) | 72.9 | (1.08) | 18.1 | (0.97) | 7.6 | (0.67) | 1.5 | (0.32) |
| Nonparental guardians | 74.2 | (2.48) | 19.3 | (2.44) | 5.1 | (0.84) | 1.4 | (0.82) | 73.9 | (2.88) | 19.3 | (2.42) | 5.9 | (1.27) | 0.9 | (0.74) |
| Highest education level of parents | ||||||||||||||||
| Less than a high school diploma | 80.7 | (1.33) | 16.4 | (1.39) | 2.7 | (0.51) | 0.2 | (0.10) | 76.9 | (2.06) | 18.9 | (1.76) | 2.9 | (1.18) | 1.3 | (0.73) |
| High school diploma or GED | 80.6 | (0.83) | 12.7 | (0.70) | 5.6 | (0.44) | 1.1 | (0.19) | 77.8 | (1.01) | 15.5 | (0.89) | 4.9 | (0.45) | 1.8 | (0.34) |
| Vocational/technical or some college | 78.0 | (0.70) | 12.4 | (0.58) | 7.7 | (0.40) | 1.9 | (0.25) | 74.0 | (0.97) | 15.5 | (0.74) | 8.3 | (0.58) | 2.1 | (0.36) |
| Bachelor's degree | 70.7 | (1.12) | 10.6 | (0.69) | 16.1 | (0.76) | 2.6 | (0.42) | 67.0 | (1.12) | 13.0 | (0.89) | 17.2 | (0.94) | 2.8 | (0.48) |
| Graduate/professional degree | 67.8 | (1.09) | 10.6 | (0.72) | 19.3 | (0.82) | 2.3 | (0.46) | 64.2 | (1.43) | 13.7 | (1.05) | 19.7 | (1.16) | 2.5 | (0.51) |
| Poverty status of household | ||||||||||||||||
| Below poverty | 77.0 | (1.15) | 16.9 | (1.02) | 4.3 | (0.49) | 1.9 | (0.40) | 76.2 | (1.35) | 17.6 | (1.11) | 3.6 | (0.70) | 2.7 | (0.65) |
| Between poverty and 200 percent of poverty | 78.0 | (1.10) | 13.8 | (0.82) | 5.7 | (0.68) | 2.4 | (0.49) | 75.7 | (1.91) | 16.3 | (1.71) | 4.7 | (0.83) | 3.3 | (0.79) |
| At or above 200 percent of poverty | 75.3 | (0.49) | 10.3 | (0.29) | 12.9 | (0.40) | 1.5 | (0.13) | 70.7 | (0.65) | 14.2 | (0.50) | 13.2 | (0.50) | 1.9 | (0.19) |
| Urbanicity3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Urban | 73.2 | (0.53) | 13.6 | (0.36) | 11.7 | (0.33) | 1.5 | (0.15) | 70.1 | (0.61) | 15.6 | (0.46) | 12.4 | (0.42) | 2.0 | (0.22) |
| Rural | 84.6 | (0.73) | 8.3 | (0.57) | 5.0 | (0.46) | 2.2 | (0.31) | 79.9 | (1.35) | 12.6 | (1.16) | 4.6 | (0.69) | 2.9 | (0.55) |
| Region | ||||||||||||||||
| Northeast | 75.1 | (1.00) | 11.1 | (0.76) | 12.6 | (0.63) | 1.1 | (0.30) | 71.6 | (1.42) | 11.9 | (1.02) | 14.6 | (1.03) | 1.8 | (0.58) |
| South | 77.1 | (0.64) | 11.6 | (0.48) | 9.3 | (0.43) | 2.0 | (0.28) | 74.2 | (0.88) | 14.9 | (0.72) | 8.3 | (0.58) | 2.6 | (0.39) |
| Midwest | 76.5 | (0.80) | 11.2 | (0.66) | 10.9 | (0.61) | 1.4 | (0.24) | 69.9 | (1.27) | 14.4 | (0.92) | 13.8 | (1.04) | 2.0 | (0.37) |
| West | 74.8 | (0.97) | 15.7 | (0.74) | 7.5 | (0.49) | 2.0 | (0.34) | 71.9 | (1.07) | 17.9 | (0.97) | 8.3 | (0.59) | 2.0 | (0.34) |
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1 Excludes students who were enrolled in school for more than 25 hours a week and students who were only homeschooled due to a temporary illness.
2 Students whose grade-equivalent was "ungraded" were excluded from the grade analysis. The percentage of students with an "ungraded" grade equivalent was 0.03 percent in 1999 and 0.02 percent in 2003.
3 Urbanicity is based on a U.S. Census Bureau classification of places. Urban is a place with at least 50,000 people. Rural is a place not classified as urban.
NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent Survey (Parent:1999) and Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey (PFI:2003) of the National Household Education Surveys Program. (This table was prepared May 2007.)
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