Institutional Racism

2001 Status Completion Rates: 18- to 24-year-olds by Race
Status Completion Rate
Asian/Pacific Islander 96.1%
White 91.0%
Black 85.6%
Hispanic 65.7%
The four-year completion rate is the percentage of 9th-grade students who left school
over a subsequent 4-year period while also completing a high school credential. Data
for the 4-year completion rate calculations are taken from the Common Core of Data
(CCD). The 4-year completion rate calculation is dependent on the availability of
dropout estimates over a 4-year span, and current counts of completers. Because
dropout rate information was missing for many states during the 4-year period
considered by the US Department of Education, 4- year completion rate estimates for
the 2000-01 school year are only available for 39 states. Since data were not available
from all states, an overall national rate could not be calculated. However, among
reporting states, the high school 4-year completion rates for public school students
ranged from a high of 90.1% in North Dakota to a low of 65.0% in Louisiana.
Sat Scores
Racial and ethnic variations in SAT scores follow a similar pattern to other racial
achievement gaps. In 1990, the average SAT was 528 for Asian-Americans, 491 for
whites, 429 for Mexican Americans and 385 for blacks. 34% of Asians compared with
20% of whites, 3% of blacks, 7% of Mexican Americans, and 9% of Native Americans
scored above a 600 on the SAT math section.[15] On the SAT verbal section in 1990,
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