2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report

Table 3.Number of high school graduates, unweighted, by student program and selected school and student demographic characteristics: 2000

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Characteristic	Student program
Characteristic	Academic	Vocational	Both	Neither
Total	14,170	610	4,325	1,167
Student gender
Male	6,272	410	2,367	612
Female	7,880	‡	1,946	‡
Not reported	18	‡	12	‡
Student race/ethnicity¹
White	8,221	384	2,500	497
Black	2,244	89	813	160
Hispanic	2,305	106	712	362
Asian/Pacific Islander	885	12	141	113
American Indian	111	8	35	9
Other	100	‡	17	‡
Not reported	304	‡	107	‡
Community type
Urban	4,675	167	1,291	385
Suburban	6,754	244	1,753	590
Rural	2,741	199	1,281	192
School type
Public	13,070	‡	4,295	‡
Nonpublic	1,100	‡	30	‡
Region of the country²
Northeast	2,207	117	622	137
South	5,984	139	2,441	180
Midwest	2,446	187	703	250
West	3,533	167	559	600

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‡ Reporting standards not met. Cells with less than three observations were not reported. If necessary, so as not to disclose the number of observations in these cells, other cells were not reported.

¹American Indian includes Alaska Native, Black includes African American, Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian, and Hispanic includes Latino. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified.

² "Region of the country" refers to the Census-defined regions. For more information about Census-defined regions, see the U.S. Census Bureau online publication "Census Regions and Divisions of the United States" (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf [1.1M PDF]).

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), 2000

Last updated 8 March 2007 (HM)