Table 1
The Percentage Distribution of Children Ages 6-18, by Parents' Educational Attainment, by Child's Race and Hispanic Origin, Selected Years 1974-99 (in percents)
	1974	1979	1984	1989	1994	1999
White, non-Hispanic
Mother's highest education level	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Less than high school	27.1	22.1	16.8	12.0	9.5	6.9
High school diploma or equivalent	51.4	50.4	50.3	48.8	37.9	35.2
Some college, including vocational/technical	12.2	16.1	18.3	21.3	31.0	31.4
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.3	11.4	14.6	17.9	21.6	26.4
Father's highest education level	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Less than high school	28.6	22.4	16.2	12.2	9.1	8.1
High school diploma or equivalent	38.3	38.7	39.0	38.4	32.2	31.5
Some college, including vocational/technical	13.2	15.5	18.3	20.1	27.4	26.8
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.9	23.4	26.5	29.3	31.3	33.6
Black, non-Hispanic
Mother's highest education level	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Less than high school	57.6	46.4	34.8	26.3	20.0	19.6
High school diploma or equivalent	32.1	36.1	42.6	44.4	40.0	37.1
Some college, including vocational/technical	6.8	12.5	15.6	19.8	30.0	29.5
Bachelor's degree or higher	3.6	4.9	7.0	9.4	10.1	13.9
Father's highest education level	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Less than high school	61.3	44.3	33.1	25.4	18.2	14.6
High school diploma or equivalent	27.1	35.7	38.4	40.4	42.2	39.3
Some college, including vocational/technical	7.6	12.7	16.3	20.6	23.5	29.7
Bachelor's degree or higher	4.0	7.3	12.2	13.7	16.1	16.5
Hispanic
Mother's highest education level	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Less than high school	61.8	60.4	60.5	55.8	51.8	49.2
High school diploma or equivalent	28.9	28.3	28.2	28.7	26.9	25.2
Some college, including vocational/technical	5.7	7.2	7.7	10.2	15.6	18.2
Bachelor's degree or higher	3.5	4.1	3.7	5.2	5.7	7.4
Father's highest education level	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Less than high school	58.3	57.2	56.3	51.6	51.1	48.9
High school diploma or equivalent	24.9	25.0	25.0	27.2	23.2	26.2
Some college, including vocational/technical	8.4	9.5	10.5	13.4	17.5	14.7
Bachelor's degree or higher	8.4	8.3	8.2	7.7	8.3	10.1
Note: Information on parents' highest education level is available only for those parents who live in the same household with their child. The Current Population Survey (CPS) questions used to obtain educational attainment were changed in 1994 and weights were adjusted. Percentages may not add to 100.0 due to rounding.
Source: Reproduced from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The Condition of Education 2001, Table 4-1, NCES 2001–072, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001.  Based on March Current Population Surveys analysis.