
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, November 21, 1994                   TAG: 9411230050
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                 LENGTH: Short

BLACKS IMPROVING RATE OF HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATION

More black youngsters are finishing high school, while graduation rates are holding steady for whites and Hispanics, the Census Bureau reports.

Some 75 percent of black students completed high school in 1993, the bureau said in a report. That was up from 67 percent two decades earlier.

During the same period, graduation rates remained unchanged for whites, at 83 percent, and Hispanics, 61 percent.

In 1993, some 42 percent of white high school graduates were enrolled in college, compared with 33 percent of blacks. Twenty years earlier, the difference was only six percentage points, 30 percent of whites and 24 percent of blacks.

Between 1973 and 1993, the percentage of Hispanics - who can be of any race - enrolled in college rose from 29 percent to 36 percent.

by CNB