Hispanic and black dropout rates at record lows

Have you heard the good news? According to the Pew Research Center, more of our high school students here in the U.S. are staying in school! New information from the Census Bureau shows that in 2013, just 7 percent of those 18-24 had dropped out of high school, compared to 2000 when 12 percent of this group were dropouts.

According to Pew, "The decline in the national dropout rate has been driven, in part, by substantially fewer Hispanic and black youth dropping out of school (the non-Hispanic white dropout rate has not fallen as sharply)."

Pew reported the dropout rate for Hispanics was a record low of 14 percent in 2013, and the dropout rate for black youth was at a record low of 8 percent. The dropout rate for non-Hispanic whites was 5 percent, and for Asian youth it was 4 percent.

To read more of the Pew Research Center's findings, click here.