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A growing proportion of U.S. college students are Hispanic, new Census figures show. That’s one finding you can generate with this database profiling the nation’s 76 million students. You can also compare students of high school freshman age by race and gender, or see how many 12 and 13 year olds are not enrolled at all. Select one or more categories to narrow your inquiry, or search “all” at the bottom to see complete results.
About This Database
Clicking on column headers will resort the results numerically. Data was released March 4, 2009, by the U.S. Census Bureau and is current as of October 2007, date of the bureau’s “School Enrollment in the United States: 2007” report. The report is based on the “October School Enrollment Supplement” to the “Current Population Survey.” For questions or comments, contact Dennis Joyce, Data Circle editor, at djoyce@tampatrib.com.
What We Found
Enrollment remains largely consistent at about 94 percent for students at the beginning of the K-12 years, ages 5-6, and those at the end, ages 16-17. One major exception: There is a decline from one age group to the next in the total number of Hispanic children as well as the number who are enrolled in school. The breakdown:
* Asians 5-6: 275,000 enrolled, 94 percent; 16-17: 293,000 enrolled, 92 percent
* Black 5-6: 1.2 million enrolled, 94 percent; 16-17: 1.28 million enrolled, 93 percent
* Hispanic 5-6: 1.75 million, 94 percent; 16-17: 1.32 million, 91 percent
* White 5-6 5.39 million, 95 percent; 16-17 6.27 million, 95 percent
Online producer: Janine Dorsey
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