Table 5. Percentage of children ages 6 to 18, by parent's highest educational attainment and race/ethnicity: 2005

Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities

NCES 2007-039
September 2007

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Table 5.

Percentage of children ages 6 to 18, by parent's highest educational attainment and race/ethnicity: 2005

				Bachelor's degree or higher
Parent and Race/ethnicity	Less than high school completion	High school completion ¹	Some college or associate's degree	Total	Bachelor's degree	Graduate degree ²
Mother
Total ³	14.8	29.4	30.3	25.5	18.6	6.9
White	5.9	29.0	33.4	31.7	23.0	8.7
Black	18.2	34.4	32.2	15.3	10.6	4.7 !
Hispanic	41.3	28.6	20.2	9.9	7.7 !	2.2 !
Asian/Pacific Islander	16.0 !	22.2 !	17.1 !	44.7	32.9 !	11.8 !
American Indian/Alaska Native	11.9 !	31.3 !	48.4 !	8.4 !	3.9 !	4.4 !

Father
Total ³	13.6	31.0	25.8	29.7	18.7	11.1
White	6.9	30.6	27.4	35.1	21.8	13.3
Black	11.5	41.8	29.5	17.3	13.0	4.3
Hispanic	41.5	28.1	19.0	11.4	8.0	3.4
Asian/Pacific Islander	8.5 !	25.3	18.5	47.7	26.7	21.0
American Indian/Alaska Native	14.9 !	40.1	32.9	12.1 !	8.4 !	3.7 !
! Interpret data with caution. ¹ Includes high school diploma or equivalency. ² A master's, doctor's, or first-professional degree. ³ Total includes persons of more than one race, not separately shown. NOTE: Parents include adoptive and step-parents but exclude parents not residing in the same household as their children. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), Annual Social and Economic Supplement, 2005.