Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

LIST OF TABLES

Tables

1. Proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds dropping out of grades 10 to 12, proportion of 16- to 24-year-olds who were dropouts, and proportion of 18- to 24-year-olds who completed high school: October 1972 to 1994

1. Event dropout and retention rates and number and distribution of dropouts from grades 10-12, ages 15-24, by sex, race-ethnicity, income, and region: October 1994

2. Event dropout and retention rates and number and distribution of dropouts from grades 10-12, ages 15-24, by age group: October 1994

3. Membership, dropout count and rate for grades 9-12, 1993-94

4. Rate and number of status dropouts, ages 16-24: October 1990 through October 1994

5. Rate, number, and distribution of status dropouts, ages 16-24, by sex, race-ethnicity, income, and region: October 1994

6. Percentage distribution of status dropouts, ages 16-24, by level of schooling attained and race-ethnicity: October 1994

7. Status dropout rate, ages 16-24, by income and race-ethnicity: October 1994

8. Status dropout rate, ages 16-24, by region and race-ethnicity: October 1994

9. Population distribution, ages 16-24, by region and race-ethnicity: October 1994

10. NELS:88 8th- to 12th-grade cohort dropout rates, by sex and race-ethnicity: 1992

11. NELS:88 8th- to 12th-grade cohort dropout rates and completion status, by sex and race-ethnicity: August 1992

12. HS&B and NELS:88 10th- to 12th-grade cohort dropout rates, by demographic characteristics: August 1982 and 1992

13. Percentage of HS&B 1980 and NELS:88 sophomore cohort dropouts who reported that various reasons for dropping out of school applied to them, by sex and race-ethnicity: 1982 and 1992

14. High school completion rates and method of completion of 18- through 24-year-olds not currently enrolled in high school or below, by race-ethnicity: October 1990 through October 1994

15. Completion rates and number and distribution of completers, ages 18 through 24 years old, by sex, race-ethnicity, and region: October 1994

16. High school completion rates of 18- through 24-year-olds, by state, October 1989-91 and 1992-94

17. Completion status of eighth grade class of 1988, August 1992 and spring 1994

18. Percentage of NELS:88 eighth graders by high school completion status, by race-ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic status: 1994

19. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders by postsecondary enrollment status, by high school completion status, spring 1994

20. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders never enrolled in postsecondary education by race-ethnicity, by high school completion status, spring 1994

21. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders never enrolled in postsecondary education by race-ethnicity, by socioeconomic status and high school completion status, fall 1994

22. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders never enrolled in postsecondary education by sex, by socioeconomic status and high school completion status, fall 1994

23. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders by employment and education status in 1993, by high school completion status, sex, and socioeconomic status: 1994

24. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders by employment and education status by high school completion status, by race-ethnicity, fall 1994

25. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders without a regular high school diploma by socioeconomic status, by race-ethnicity, fall 1994

26. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders by employment and education status, by high school completion status, by sex and socioeconomic status

27. Median income for 1988 eighth graders not enrolled in educational programs and reporting income, by high school completion status, by socioeconomic status and race-ethnicity: 1994

28. Median income for 1988 eighth graders not enrolled in educational programs and reporting income, by high school completion status, by sex and socioeconomic status: 1994

29. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders by number of children born, by high school completion status: 1994

30. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders by marital/living arrangements, by high school completion status: 1994

31. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders with children, by time of birth of first child, by high school completion status: 1994

32. Percentage of NELS:88 eighth graders with at least one child, by race-ethnicity, by graduation status and socioeconomic status: spring 1994

33. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders with at least one child, by sex, by graduation status and socioeconomic status: 1994

34. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders with children born prior to scheduled graduation (8/92), by sex, by graduation status and socioeconomic status: 1994

35. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders with at least one child, by race-ethnicity, by graduation status and socioeconomic status: 1994

36. Percentage of 1988 eighth graders ever married or in a marriage-like arrangement, by race-ethnicity, by graduation status and socioeconomic status: 1994

37. Percentage of NELS:88 eighth graders ever married or in a marriage-like arrangement, by sex, by graduation status and socioeconomic status: 1994

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[List of Figures]