Tables: Secondary/High School

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Table H164. Percentage of fall 2009 public school ninth-graders in 2012 who agree with the statement "Students with bad grades often get good jobs after high school," by student, family, and school characteristics: 2012

Characteristic	Number of students	Percent¹

Total	3,811,000	18.2

Student sex
Male	1,930,000	18.8
Female	1,881,000	17.7

Student race/ethnicity
White	1,933,000	15.6
Black or African American	541,000	24.8
Hispanic or Latino	870,000	19.9
Asian	135,000	17.1
All other races²	332,000	19.0

Student mathematics achievement (quintile rank)
Lowest fifth	785,000	28.8
Middle three-fifths	2,305,000	17.1
Highest fifth	720,000	10.8

Student main activity for fall of 2013³
Postsecondary education	2,832,000	14.6
Work	743,000	28.8
Other	235,000	25.6

Parent's highest education
High school diploma, GED, or less	1,881,000	20.6
Associate's degree	653,000	18.4
Bachelor's degree	785,000	15.6
Graduate/professional degree	492,000	13.4

Family socioeconomic status (quintile rank)
Lowest fifth	791,000	22.5
Middle three-fifths	2,345,000	18.2
Highest fifth	674,000	13.5

School locale
City	1,159,000	20.9
Suburb	1,269,000	17.1
Town	469,000	18.6
Rural	914,000	16.2

¹ Percent of students who responded "agree" or "strongly agree" with the statement "Students with bad grades often get good jobs after high school."
²"All other races" includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and persons of two or more races.
³Indicates the one activity that students expect will be their main focus in fall 2013. "Work" includes military service; "Other" includes starting a family, caring for own children, or attending high school or a GED completion course.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) First Follow-up Restricted-Use Data File.

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