Table 1. Percentage distribution of academic year 2001–2002 high school sophomores, by high school completion status as of 2006 and select student characteristics.

Education Longitudinal
Study of 2002 (ELS:2002)

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Characteristic	Pre-fall 2003 graduate		Academic year 2003–2004 graduate	Post-academic year 2003-2004 graduate, GED recipient or high school equivalency recipient		Not completed
Total	2.9		82.1	7.2		7.8

Sex
Female	2.7		85.0	5.8		6.4
Male	3.1		79.2	8.6		9.2

Race/ethnicity¹
American Indian or Alaska Native	4.1	!	67.8	12.0		16.1
Asian or Pacific Islander	2.6		87.6	4.8		5.0
Black or African American	6.2		72.0	10.1		11.7
Hispanic or Latino	4.1		70.9	10.7		14.3
White	1.8		87.8	5.3		5.1
Two or more races	3.2		77.1	10.7		9.1

Family income
$0–20,000	5.2		67.2	12.9		14.7
$20,001–50,000	2.9		79.6	7.6		9.9
$50,001–100,000	2.4		87.7	5.4		4.5
$100,001 or more	1.5		92.4	3.9		2.2

Parental education²
High school or less	3.7		72.9	9.2		14.2
Some college	3.3		81.4	8.4		6.9
Bachelor's degree	2.2		88.4	5.1		4.3
Graduate/professional degree	1.7		90.7	4.0		3.5

Native language³
English	2.8		83.5	6.8		6.9
Non-English	3.6		73.5	9.6		13.3

High school sector
Public	3.0		81.1	7.6		8.3
Catholic	‡		98.3	1.3	!	0.2	!
Other private	2.7	!	92.3	3.3		1.7	!

Highest math course taken in high school
No math	7.4	!	34.5	24.0		34.1
Basic math/pre-algebra	4.0		50.4	19.2		26.4
Algebra I, geometry, or algebra II	3.7		79.4	8.1		8.8
Trigonometry, statistics, pre-calculus	1.2		96.7	1.3		0.8
Calculus	0.4	!	98.9	0.6	!	#
No transcript collected	5.8		61.2	17.1		15.9
# Rounds to zero.
‡ Reporting standards are not met.
! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error represents more than 30 percent of the estimate.
¹ All race categories exclude Hispanic or Latino origin, unless specified. Asian or Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian.
² Parental education is the highest level of education attained by the student’s mother and father (including guardians); or, if the student had only one parent, the educational attainment of that parent (or guardian).
³ The first language students learned to speak.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002), “Second Follow-up, 2006.”

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