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| Table 9. Percentage distribution of private school students, by racial/ethnic background and selected characteristics: United States, 2005–06 |
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| Selected characteristic | White, non-Hispanic | Minority | |||||||||
| Total Minority | Black, non-Hispanic | Hispanic | Asian/ Pacific Islander | American Indian/ Alaska Native | |||||||
| Total | 75.4 | 24.6 | 9.5 | 9.2 | 5.1 | 0.7 | |||||
| NCES typology | |||||||||||
| Catholic | 74.1 | 25.9 | 7.9 | 12.6 | 4.7 | 0.7 | |||||
| Parochial | 74.1 | 25.9 | 7.7 | 13.0 | 4.6 | 0.7 | |||||
| Diocesan | 75.0 | 25.0 | 7.8 | 12.1 | 4.5 | 0.6 | |||||
| Private | 72.0 | 28.0 | 8.8 | 12.6 | 5.5 | 1.0 | |||||
| Other religious | 77.8 | 22.2 | 10.8 | 6.3 | 4.5 | 0.5 | |||||
| Conservative Christian | 75.3 | 24.7 | 12.2 | 7.7 | 4.2 | 0.7 | |||||
| Affiliated | 81.0 | 19.0 | 8.7 | 5.3 | 4.6 | 0.4 | |||||
| Unaffiliated | 78.3 | 21.7 | 11.1 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 0.3 | |||||
| Nonsectarian | 73.7 | 26.3 | 10.8 | 7.0 | 7.4 | 1.0 | |||||
| Regular | 76.7 | 23.3 | 8.9 | 6.0 | 7.5 | 0.9 | |||||
| Special emphasis | 71.6 | 28.4 | 9.9 | 7.6 | 9.4 | 1.6 | |||||
| Special education | 61.3 | 38.7 | 23.8 | 11.8 | 2.2 | 0.9 | |||||
| School level | |||||||||||
| Elementary | 73.7 | 26.3 | 9.7 | 10.7 | 5.2 | 0.7 | |||||
| Secondary | 75.4 | 24.6 | 8.3 | 10.5 | 5.2 | 0.7 | |||||
| Combined | 78.2 | 21.8 | 9.8 | 6.4 | 4.9 | 0.7 | |||||
| Program emphasis | |||||||||||
| Regular elementary/secondary | 76.0 | 24.0 | 9.1 | 9.3 | 4.9 | 0.7 | |||||
| Montessori | 70.1 | 29.9 | 9.1 | 7.6 | 11.9 | 1.3 | |||||
| Special program emphasis | 77.5 | 22.5 | 7.9 | 7.1 | 6.4 | 1.0 | |||||
| Special education | 62.0 | 38.0 | 23.5 | 11.5 | 2.2 | 0.8 | |||||
| Vocational/technical | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||||
| Alternative | 61.8 | 38.2 | 17.1 | 11.5 | 8.3 | 1.4 | |||||
| Early childhood | 72.1 | 27.9 | 13.4 | 7.0 | 6.3 | 1.2 | |||||
| Size (number of students) | |||||||||||
| Less than 50 | 71.5 | 28.5 | 15.1 | 8.5 | 3.8 | 1.1 | |||||
| 50–149 | 71.3 | 28.7 | 14.2 | 9.0 | 4.5 | 1.0 | |||||
| 150–299 | 70.6 | 29.4 | 11.7 | 11.6 | 5.5 | 0.6 | |||||
| 300–499 | 78.2 | 21.8 | 7.8 | 8.5 | 4.9 | 0.6 | |||||
| 500–749 | 80.0 | 20.0 | 5.8 | 8.3 | 5.2 | 0.7 | |||||
| 750 or more | 80.0 | 20.0 | 6.1 | 7.7 | 5.7 | 0.5 | |||||
| Region | |||||||||||
| Northeast | 75.5 | 24.5 | 11.6 | 8.2 | 4.3 | 0.4 | |||||
| Midwest | 84.0 | 16.0 | 8.0 | 4.8 | 2.4 | 0.7 | |||||
| South | 76.2 | 23.8 | 11.3 | 8.8 | 3.2 | 0.4 | |||||
| West | 63.5 | 36.5 | 6.0 | 16.6 | 12.5 | 1.4 | |||||
| Urbanicity type | |||||||||||
| City | 68.5 | 31.5 | 12.8 | 11.9 | 6.3 | 0.5 | |||||
| Suburban | 77.4 | 22.6 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 4.8 | 0.6 | |||||
| Town | 88.2 | 11.8 | 3.2 | 5.3 | 2.6 | 0.8 | |||||
| Rural | 86.2 | 13.8 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 1.6 | |||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. | |||||||||||
| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. These estimates do not include private schools for which kindergarten is the highest grade. Black includes African American, Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian, and Hispanic includes Latino. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified. | |||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2005–2006. | |||||||||||
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