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Table 102.90. | Percentage distribution of students ages 5 through 17 attending kindergarten through grade 12, by locale, highest education level of parents/guardians in household, and number of parents in household: 2016 |
[Standard errors appear in parentheses] | |||||||||||||||
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Highest education level of parents/guardians and number of parents in household |
Total | Locale | |||||||||||||
City | Suburban | Town | Rural | ||||||||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||
Total | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | |||||
Highest education level of parents/ guardians in the household |
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Less than a high school diploma | 11.0 | (0.16) | 17.1 | (0.98) | 8.5 | (0.68) | 8.5 | (1.26) | 7.0 | (0.86) | |||||
High school diploma/equivalent | 19.2 | (0.19) | 18.6 | (1.06) | 16.4 | (0.84) | 29.0 | (2.26) | 23.0 | (1.61) | |||||
Vocational/technical or some college |
16.2 | (0.42) | 15.6 | (0.81) | 15.0 | (0.65) | 18.0 | (1.53) | 19.6 | (1.11) | |||||
Associate's degree | 9.6 | (0.33) | 9.2 | (0.65) | 8.7 | (0.45) | 12.5 | (1.35) | 11.7 | (0.94) | |||||
Bachelor's degree/some graduate school |
27.0 | (0.42) | 23.9 | (0.92) | 30.8 | (0.86) | 21.3 | (1.60) | 25.6 | (1.25) | |||||
Graduate/professional degree | 17.0 | (0.08) | 15.5 | (0.52) | 20.7 | (0.45) | 10.6 | (0.83) | 13.1 | (0.78) | |||||
Number of parents in the household | |||||||||||||||
Two parents | 71.2 | (0.52) | 65.8 | (1.22) | 74.4 | (0.90) | 66.2 | (2.11) | 75.7 | (1.15) | |||||
One parent | 25.0 | (0.56) | 29.8 | (1.27) | 22.9 | (0.92) | 28.8 | (2.06) | 19.5 | (0.96) | |||||
Nonparental guardians | 3.7 | (0.23) | 4.4 | (0.55) | 2.6 | (0.25) | 5.0 | (1.13) | 4.8 | (0.60) |
†Not applicable. | |||||||||||||||
NOTE: Includes homeschooled students. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. | |||||||||||||||
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:2016). (This table was prepared April 2019.) |