Graduation Rate for Blacks Up; Numbers Steady for Whites, Latinos
More black youngsters are finishing high school than in the past, while graduation rates are holding steady for whites and Latinos, the Census Bureau reports.
About 75% of African American students completed high school in 1993, the bureau said in a report. That was up from 67% two decades earlier.
During the same period, graduation rates remained unchanged for whites, at 83%, and Latinos, 61%.
“Although the difference in the high school completion rates is narrowing between African Americans and whites, and college enrollments are improving for both groups, the gap in college enrollment has not decreased,” said census statistician Rosalind Bruno.
In fact, it seems to have grown.
In 1993, about 42% of white high school graduates were enrolled in college, compared to 33% of blacks. Twenty years earlier, the difference was only six percentage points, 30% of whites and 24% of blacks. Between 1973 and 1993, the percentage of Latinos enrolled in college rose from 29% to 36%.
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