Hispanic high school graduates pass whites in college enrollment rate

Valerie Strauss:

It just so happens that in the same week that a co-author of a Heritage Foundation immigration study resigned for suggesting that Hispanics have lower IQs than whites, the Pew Research Hispanic Center released a new analysis showing that Hispanic high school graduates have passed whites in the rate of college enrollment.

In a report by Richard Fry and Paul Taylor, the center says that "a record seven-in-ten (69%) Hispanic high school graduates in the class of 2012 enrolled in college that fall, two percentage points higher than the rate (67%) among their white counterparts."

Furthermore, the center's analysis of new data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed that according to the most recent available data, in 2011, "only 14% of Hispanic 16- to 24-year-olds were high school dropouts, half the level in 2000 (28%)."

A recent comprehensive investigation of high school graduation rates finds that 78% of Hispanics graduated from high school in 2010, an increase from 64% in 2000.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 16, 2013 1:19 AM
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