|Race/ethnicity and subgroup||Number||Total||Native|| Foreign-|
|Other Hispanic or Latino||629,000||10.9||9.7||17.8|
|Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander||53,000||9.8!||7.7!||18.2!|
|American Indian/Alaska Native||286,000||15.5||15.6||‡|
# Rounds to zero.
! Interpret data with caution.
‡ Reporting standards not met. Sample size too small.
1 Total includes other race/ethnicity categories not separately shown.
NOTE: The data presented here represent status dropout rates, which is the percentage of civilian, non-institutionalized 16- to 24-year-olds who are not in high school and who have not earned a high school credential (either a diploma or equivalency credential such as a GED). The status dropout rate includes all dropouts regardless of when they last attended school, as well as individuals who may have never attended school in the United States, such as immigrants who did not complete a high school diploma in their home country. Another way of calculating dropout rates is the event dropout rate, which is the percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds who dropped out of grades 10 through 12 in the 12 months preceding the fall of each data collection year. This table uses a different data source from table 17a, and therefore estimates are not directly comparable to the 2005 estimates in table 1a. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2005.