A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

Indicator 26. School Completion

Percent of 25- to 29-year-olds completing high school and college, by age and race/ethnicity: 1940 to 1991

__________________________________________________________________               |       Highest level of education completed               |___________________________________________________               |          |         Completed high school               |Less than |________________________________________      Year     | 4 years  |         |         | 4 years |               | of high  |         | 4 years | of high |4 years of               |  school  |  Total  | of high | school  | college               |          |         | school  |and some | or more               |          |         |  only   | college | ______________|__________|_________|_________|_________|__________                                 All races  1940 .........      61.9      38.1       ---       ---        5.9 1950 .........      47.2      52.8       ---       ---        7.7 1960 .........      39.3      60.7      37.5      12.2       11.0 1970 .........      24.6      75.4      44.1      14.9       16.4 1975 .........      16.9      83.1      41.5      19.7       21.9 1980 .........      14.6      85.4      40.7      22.2       22.5 1985 .........      13.9      86.1      42.4      21.5       22.2 1990 .........      14.3      85.7      41.2      21.3       23.2 1991 .........      14.6      85.4      40.1      22.1       23.2                                   White1/  1940 .........      58.8      41.2       ---       ---        6.4 1950 .........      43.7      56.3       ---       ---        8.2 1960 .........      36.3      63.7      39.1      12.8       11.8 1970 .........      22.2      77.8      45.0      15.5       17.3 1975 .........      15.6      84.4      41.6      20.0       22.8 1980 .........      13.1      86.9      40.7      22.5       23.7 1985 .........      13.2      86.8      42.3      21.3       23.2 1990 .........      13.7      86.3      41.0      21.1       24.2 1991 .........      14.2      85.8      39.6      21.7       24.6                           Black and other races1/  1940 .........      87.7      12.3       ---       ---        1.6 1950 .........      76.4      23.6       ---       ---        2.8 1960 .........      61.4      38.6      25.5       7.7        5.4 1970 .........      41.6      58.4      37.6      10.8       10.0 1975 .........      26.2      73.8      41.1      17.3       15.4 1980 .........      23.0      77.0      40.8      21.0       15.2 1985 .........      17.6      82.4      43.1      22.6       16.7 1990 .........      17.5      82.5      42.1      22.3       18.2 1991 .........      16.8      83.2      42.5      24.2       16.4                                  Black1/  1970 .........      43.8      56.2      39.0       9.9        7.3 1975 .........      29.0      71.0      43.4      16.9       10.7 1980 .........      23.1      76.9      44.1      21.1       11.7 1985 .........      19.4      80.6      46.2      22.9       11.5 1990 .........      18.4      81.6      45.7      22.6       13.4 1991 .........      18.4      81.6      46.4      24.2       11.0                                 Hispanic2/   1975 .........      48.3      51.7      30.7      12.2        8.8 1980 .........      42.1      57.9      34.8      15.4        7.7 1985 .........      39.0      61.0      34.0      16.0       11.0 1990 .........      41.9      58.1      34.8      15.2        8.2 1991 .........      43.2      56.8      32.8      14.7        9.2 __________________________________________________________________ 

1/Includes Hispanics.
2/Hispanics may be of any race.

NOTE: Because of rounding, percentages may not total 100 percent.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1960 Census of Population, vol. 1, part 1; Current Population Reports, Series P-20, Educational Attainment in the United States, various years; and unpublished data.