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

Indicator 27. Dropouts

Percent of high school dropouts among persons 16 to 24 years old, by sex and race/ethnicity: October 1967 to October 1991

_____________________________________________________________________           |       |      Sex      |     Race/ethnicity           |  All  |_______________|__________________________________    Year   |persons|       |       |   White,   |   Black,   |Hispanic           |       | Male  |Female |non-Hispanic|non-Hispanic| __________|_______|_______|_______|____________|____________|________ 1967 .....   17.0    16.5    17.3  1/     15.4  1/     28.6      --- 1970 .....   15.0    14.2    15.7  1/     13.2  1/     27.9      --- 1975 .....   13.9    13.3    14.5         11.4         22.8     29.2 1980 .....   14.1    15.1    13.1         11.3         19.2     35.2  1981 .....   13.9    15.1    12.8         11.4         18.4     33.2 1982 .....   13.9    14.5    13.3         11.4         18.4     31.7 1983 .....   13.7    14.9    12.5         11.2         18.0     31.6 1984 .....   13.1    14.0    12.3         11.0         15.5     29.8 1985 .....   12.6    13.4    11.8         10.4         15.2     27.6 1986 .....   12.2    13.1    11.4          9.7         14.1     30.1 1987 .....   12.7    13.3    12.2         10.4         14.2     28.6 1988 .....   12.9    13.5    12.2          9.6         14.3     35.8 1989 .....   12.6    13.6    11.7          9.4         13.9     33.0 1990 .....   12.1    12.3    11.8          9.0         13.2     32.4  1991 .....   12.5    13.0    11.9          8.9         13.6     35.3 _____________________________________________________________________

---Data not available.

1/Includes Hispanics.

NOTE: "Status" dropouts are persons who are not enrolled in school and who have not completed high school. People who have received GED credentials are counted as completing high school. Data are based upon sample surveys of the civilian noninstitutional population.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, unpublished tabulations; and U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Dropout Rates in the United States, 1991.