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                                      |     Highest educational attainment of 1980 high school seniors in 1986
      Race/ethnicity and October      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     1980 postsecondary education     |         | No high |  High   |         |          |          | Graduate/
          attendance status           |  Total  | school  | school  |License2/|Associate |Bachelor's|professional
                                      |         |diploma1/| diploma |         |  degree  |  degree  |   degree
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                  1                   |    2    |    3    |    4    |    5    |    6     |    7     |     8
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                                      |         |         |         |         |          |          |
Total                                 |         |         |         |         |          |          |
  Part-time 2-year public college ....|   100.0 |     0.7 |    66.4 |    17.7 |      8.8 |      6.5 |       (\3\)
  Part-time 4-year public college ....|   100.0 |     2.7 |    57.1 |    15.4 |      1.6 |     22.6 |        0.6
  Full-time 2-year public college ....|   100.0 |   (\3\) |    49.5 |    11.7 |     20.7 |     17.6 |        0.5
  Full-time 4-year public college ....|   100.0 |   (\3\) |    41.7 |     7.6 |      4.5 |     44.9 |        1.3
  Full-time 4-year private college ...|   100.0 |   (\3\) |    31.1 |     8.8 |      5.1 |     51.9 |        3.0
  Not a student ......................|   100.0 |     1.8 |    78.2 |    12.8 |      3.6 |      3.5 |        0.2
                                      |         |         |         |         |          |          |
White, non-Hispanic                   |         |         |         |         |          |          |
  Part-time 2-year public college ....|   100.0 |     0.8 |    67.7 |    17.9 |      6.9 |      6.7 |       (\3\)
  Part-time 4-year public college ....|   100.0 |     3.4 |    54.8 |    14.5 |      0.3 |     27.0 |       (\3\)
  Full-time 2-year public college ....|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    48.6 |    10.8 |     20.7 |     19.3 |        0.7
  Full-time 4-year public college ....|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    39.0 |     6.8 |      4.8 |     48.0 |        1.5
  Full-time 4-year private college ...|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    28.1 |     7.9 |      5.1 |     55.7 |        3.3
  Not a student ......................|   100.0 |     1.6 |    78.5 |    12.7 |      3.5 |      3.5 |        0.2
                                      |         |         |         |         |          |          |
Black, non-Hispanic                   |         |         |         |         |          |          |
  Part-time 2-year public college ....|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    65.8 |    22.1 |      9.8 |      2.3 |       (\3\)
  Part-time 4-year public college ....|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    58.5 |    25.1 |      6.0 |      8.5 |        1.8
  Full-time 2-year public college ....|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    52.8 |    19.2 |     18.9 |      9.1 |       (\3\)
  Full-time 4-year public college ....|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    59.4 |    11.2 |      3.4 |     25.6 |        0.5
  Full-time 4-year private college ...|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    50.5 |    15.0 |      5.5 |     28.5 |        0.6
  Not a student ......................|   100.0 |     2.2 |    78.1 |    13.3 |      3.6 |      2.8 |       (\3\)
                                      |         |         |         |         |          |          |
Hispanic                              |         |         |         |         |          |          |
  Part-time 2-year public college ....|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    57.4 |    14.9 |     23.4 |      4.4 |       (\3\)
  Part-time 4-year public college ....|    (\4\)|    (\4\)|    (\4\)|    (\4\)|    (\4\) |    (\4\) |       (\4\)
  Full-time 2-year public college ....|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    53.9 |    14.9 |     22.7 |      8.5 |       (3/)
  Full-time 4-year public college ....|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    51.1 |    18.4 |      4.1 |     25.6 |        0.9
  Full-time 4-year private college ...|   100.0 |    (\3\)|    46.8 |    19.4 |      6.1 |     26.8 |        1.0
  Not a student ......................|   100.0 |     3.1 |    83.2 |    10.3 |      2.4 |      0.9 |       (\3\)
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1 Seniors who dropped out of high school after spring 1980 survey and had not completed high school by 1986.

2 Includes persons who earned a certificate for completing a program of study.

3 Less than .05 percent.

4 Fewer than 30 cases available for analysis. Estimates are suppressed because they are unreliable.

NOTE.--Because of rounding, percents may not add to 100.0.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School and Beyond survey. (This table was prepared September 1987.)