Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

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

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                                                     Cohort dropout rate
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                                        Spring      Spring      Spring      August
Characteristics                        1988-90     1990-92/1   1988-92       1992
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        Total                            6.8         7.6         11.6        11.0

Sex
         Male                            7.2         7.6         11.6        11.2
         Female                          6.5         7.6         11.6        10.8

Race ethnicity/2
         Asian/Pacific Islander          4.0         5.5          7.0         6.5
         Hispanic                        9.6        12.7         18.3        17.8
         Black, non-Hispanic            10.2         9.6         14.5        14.1
         White, non-Hispanic             5.2         6.1          9.4         8.8
         Native American                 9.2        19.9         25.4        25.4
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1/The denominator for this rate includes the members of the 1988 eighth-grade cohort who were still enrolled in school in the spring of 1990; excluded are students who dropped out between 1988 and 1990 and students who migrated out of the country or died.

2/Not shown separately are 434 persons (approximately 2 percent of the unweighted sample) whose race ethnicity is unknown.

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