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| Table 102.90. | Percentage distribution of students ages 5 through 17 attending kindergarten through grade 12, by locale, highest education level of parents/guardians in household, and number of parents in household: 2019 |
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| Highest education level of parents/guardians and number of parents in household | Total | Locale | |||||||||||||
| City | Suburban | Town | Rural | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Total | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | |||||
| Highest education level of parents/ guardians in the household |
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| Less than a high school diploma | 10.3 | (0.07) | 14.1 | (0.84) | 7.7 | (0.59) | 11.2 | (1.72) | 9.1 | (1.02) | |||||
| High school diploma/equivalent | 18.6 | (0.16) | 20.5 | (0.82) | 15.1 | (0.59) | 26.6 | (2.08) | 20.0 | (1.10) | |||||
| Vocational/technical or some college |
15.8 | (0.28) | 16.3 | (0.60) | 15.0 | (0.56) | 17.8 | (1.31) | 15.9 | (0.98) | |||||
| Associate's degree | 9.6 | (0.33) | 7.6 | (0.49) | 9.4 | (0.46) | 11.1 | (1.25) | 12.9 | (0.82) | |||||
| Bachelor's degree/some graduate school |
26.5 | (0.36) | 23.2 | (0.82) | 30.3 | (0.70) | 21.0 | (1.37) | 26.0 | (1.13) | |||||
| Graduate/professional degree | 19.2 | (0.05) | 18.3 | (0.57) | 22.6 | (0.47) | 12.2 | (0.90) | 16.2 | (0.61) | |||||
Number of parents in the household |
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| Two parents | 71.6 | (0.50) | 66.2 | (0.99) | 74.6 | (0.70) | 66.6 | (2.12) | 76.4 | (1.26) | |||||
| One parent | 25.0 | (0.47) | 30.5 | (0.97) | 22.8 | (0.68) | 28.7 | (2.15) | 18.4 | (1.16) | |||||
| Nonparental guardians | 3.5 | (0.21) | 3.2 | (0.34) | 2.7 | (0.28) | 4.8 | (0.87) | 5.3 | (0.56) | |||||
| †Not applicable. | |||||||||||||||
| NOTE: For the 2019 administration of the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), the majority of data were collected using a web-based survey instrument that respondents accessed with credentials they received in a mailed invitation. Paper surveys were used for nonresponse follow-up and for a small experiment. Includes homeschooled students. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. | |||||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (PFI-NHES:2019). (This table was prepared January 2022.) |
