More Hispanic Students Finishing High School

More Hispanic Students Finishing High School

by Christine Armario/Associated Press

MIAMI (AP) –A higher percentage of young Hispanic adults is finishing high school, and the number attending a two-year college has nearly doubled over the last decade, according to Census data releasedWednesday. The percentage of Hispanic 18- to 24-year-olds who are not enrolled in high school and don’t have an equivalent degree was 22 percent in 2008, down from 34 percent in 1998. Meanwhile, the number attending a two-year college increased 85 percent, from 540,000 in 2000 to one million in 2008.