Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table A27-Data for Table 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

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                                   Socioeconomic Status/*
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                         Total        Low      Middle
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Total                    $155         $162      $199
  High school graduate    113          123       281
  Alternative completer   952        1,527       792
  Dropout                 610          846       966

Asian/Pacific Islander  1,559        2,753     1,914
  High school graduate  1,782           -      2,189
  Alternative completer    -	        -	  -                          
  Dropout                  -	        -	  -                          
Hispanic                  462          675       518
  High school graduate    693          892       690
  Alternative completer 1,223        1,337     2,439
  Dropout                 731          962       488
Black, non-Hispanic       610          867       771
  High school graduate    732        1,033       998
  Alternative completer 1,138          603        -   
  Dropout                 683          751     1,038
White, non-Hispanic       262          513       207
  High school graduate    270          423       151
  Alternative completer   679        1,587       903
  Dropout                 635          984       487
Native American          1953        2,132     2,646
  High school graduate  1,227        2,171     1,043
  Alternative completer    -	        -	  -                          
  Dropout                  -	        -	  -                          
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-Insufficient sample size to compute reliable estimate.

*/Based on the students' family socioeconomic status as of 1992. The number of high socioeconomic status students who were not in school and working are too few to provide reliable estimates of their median income.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, Third Followup Survey, 1994, unpublished data.

[Appendix A: Table 26]

[Appendix A: Table 28]