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(49KB)| Table 206.40. | Percentage of students enrolled in grades 1 through 12 whose parents reported having public school choice, considered other schools, reported current school was their first choice, or moved to their current neighborhood for the public school, by school type and selected child and household characteristics: 2012 |
| [Standard errors appear in parentheses] | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School type and selected child or household characteristic |
Public choice available |
Considered other schools |
School was parent's first choice |
Moved to neighborhood for public school1 |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
| Total | 37.3 | (0.54) | 30.5 | (0.51) | 78.6 | (0.43) | 18.6 | (0.54) | ||||
| School type2 | ||||||||||||
| Public, assigned | 27.8 | (0.58) | 24.2 | (0.59) | 77.5 | (0.50) | 20.3 | (0.64) | ||||
| Public, chosen3 | 100.0 | (†) | 53.1 | (1.49) | 79.3 | (1.05) | 9.8 | (0.97) | ||||
| Private, religious | 20.7 | (1.57) | 46.5 | (1.92) | 87.2 | (1.51) | † | (†) | ||||
| Private, nonsectarian | 21.2 | (3.58) | 61.5 | (3.63) | 88.9 | (2.37) | † | (†) | ||||
| Sex of child | ||||||||||||
| Male | 36.3 | (0.78) | 29.9 | (0.78) | 79.0 | (0.56) | 17.6 | (0.67) | ||||
| Female | 38.5 | (0.71) | 31.2 | (0.81) | 78.1 | (0.71) | 19.7 | (0.79) | ||||
| Race/ethnicity of child | ||||||||||||
| White | 34.2 | (0.64) | 26.5 | (0.67) | 83.4 | (0.60) | 20.5 | (0.60) | ||||
| Black | 43.2 | (1.56) | 40.1 | (1.56) | 69.4 | (1.69) | 15.0 | (1.70) | ||||
| Hispanic | 38.9 | (1.25) | 31.5 | (1.20) | 74.3 | (1.04) | 16.5 | (1.33) | ||||
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 42.8 | (2.51) | 33.2 | (2.50) | 77.2 | (2.12) | 24.4 | (1.75) | ||||
| Other | 40.5 | (2.33) | 36.4 | (2.55) | 75.6 | (1.99) | 14.9 | (1.55) | ||||
| Disability status of child as reported by parent |
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| Has a disability | 37.8 | (1.25) | 32.5 | (1.32) | 75.4 | (1.15) | 18.3 | (1.22) | ||||
| Does not have a disability | 37.2 | (0.56) | 30.1 | (0.55) | 79.2 | (0.50) | 18.7 | (0.62) | ||||
| Grade level | ||||||||||||
| Grades 1 through 5 | 35.0 | (0.87) | 30.9 | (0.94) | 78.4 | (0.81) | 18.7 | (0.86) | ||||
| Grades 6 through 8 | 39.0 | (1.11) | 30.3 | (0.92) | 78.1 | (0.83) | 19.4 | (1.05) | ||||
| Grades 9 through 12 | 39.2 | (0.86) | 30.1 | (0.80) | 79.1 | (0.73) | 17.9 | (1.06) | ||||
| Number of parents in the household | ||||||||||||
| Two parents | 37.2 | (0.62) | 30.7 | (0.61) | 81.3 | (0.45) | 19.2 | (0.57) | ||||
| One parent | 37.4 | (1.01) | 30.4 | (0.97) | 73.1 | (1.04) | 18.5 | (1.08) | ||||
| Nonparental guardians | 38.5 | (2.63) | 27.9 | (2.67) | 75.3 | (2.87) | 10.6 | (1.74) | ||||
| Highest education level of parents | ||||||||||||
| Less than a high school diploma | 37.3 | (1.71) | 25.8 | (1.63) | 75.7 | (1.65) | 16.3 | (1.89) | ||||
| High school diploma or GED | 34.7 | (1.45) | 23.9 | (1.46) | 77.9 | (1.10) | 13.5 | (1.03) | ||||
| Vocational/technical or some college | 37.5 | (0.90) | 28.5 | (0.74) | 75.3 | (0.87) | 17.0 | (0.85) | ||||
| Bachelor's degree/some graduate school | 38.4 | (1.17) | 35.1 | (1.22) | 81.9 | (0.85) | 21.6 | (0.97) | ||||
| Graduate/professional degree | 39.0 | (0.93) | 40.2 | (0.99) | 83.3 | (0.67) | 27.8 | (0.84) | ||||
| Poverty status of household4 | ||||||||||||
| Poor | 37.7 | (1.35) | 26.8 | (1.32) | 72.5 | (1.18) | 14.8 | (1.06) | ||||
| Near-poor | 39.2 | (1.14) | 28.4 | (1.13) | 76.6 | (1.01) | 14.6 | (0.92) | ||||
| Nonpoor | 36.5 | (0.67) | 32.4 | (0.75) | 81.2 | (0.56) | 21.5 | (0.69) | ||||
| Locale | ||||||||||||
| City | 48.8 | (1.07) | 39.7 | (1.05) | 73.6 | (0.77) | 17.0 | (0.80) | ||||
| Suburban | 32.0 | (0.88) | 30.0 | (0.72) | 78.1 | (0.80) | 22.5 | (0.90) | ||||
| Town | 33.1 | (1.91) | 19.6 | (1.46) | 82.2 | (1.33) | 14.0 | (1.77) | ||||
| Rural | 33.6 | (1.15) | 24.3 | (1.02) | 84.0 | (0.88) | 16.4 | (0.96) | ||||
| Region | ||||||||||||
| Northeast | 22.4 | (1.01) | 29.5 | (1.08) | 76.5 | (1.13) | 18.4 | (1.10) | ||||
| South | 34.2 | (0.93) | 28.9 | (0.90) | 78.3 | (0.79) | 18.3 | (0.96) | ||||
| Midwest | 41.8 | (1.01) | 28.5 | (1.24) | 80.1 | (1.08) | 21.1 | (1.13) | ||||
| West | 48.6 | (1.21) | 35.3 | (0.98) | 79.2 | (0.80) | 17.1 | (0.89) | ||||
| †Not applicable. | ||||||||||||
| 1 This column shows percentages of public school students only. Private school students are excluded from the analysis. | ||||||||||||
| 2 There were 160 cases excluded from the school type analysis because parents reported the school as a private school when it was later found to be a public school, and therefore questions about whether the school was assigned were not asked. | ||||||||||||
| 3 Students who attended chosen public schools were automatically coded as "yes" for whether or not their district allowed public school choice. | ||||||||||||
| 4 Poor children are those whose family incomes were below the Census Bureau’s poverty threshold in the year prior to data collection; near-poor children are those whose family incomes ranged from the poverty threshold to 199 percent of the poverty threshold; and nonpoor children are those whose family incomes were at or above 200 percent of the poverty threshold. The poverty threshold is a dollar amount that varies depending on a family’s size and composition and is updated annually to account for inflation. In 2011, for example, the poverty threshold for a family of four with two children was $22,811. Survey respondents are asked to select the range within which their income falls, rather than giving the exact amount of their income; therefore, the measure of poverty status is an approximation. | ||||||||||||
| NOTE: Data exclude homeschooled children. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. | ||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (PFI-NHES:2012). (This table was prepared September 2014.) |
