Hispanic high school graduates pass whites in college enrollment rate
It just so happens that in the same week that a co-author of a Heritage Foundation immigration study resigned for suggestingthat Hispanics have lower IQs than whites, the Pew Research Hispanic Center releaseda 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.
The high school dropout rate among whites also declined during that period — from 7