Statistics

General Statistics



  • Each year, approximately 1.2 million students fail to graduate from high school, more than half of whom are from minority groups. 
  • Nationally, about 71 percent of all students graduate from high school on time with a regular diploma, but barely half of African American and Hispanic students earn diplomas with their peers. In many states the difference between white and minority graduation rates is stunning; in several cases there is a gap of as many as 40 or 50 percentage points.
  •  A sixteen- to twenty-four-year-old coming from the highest quartile of family income is about seven times as likely to have completed high school as a sixteen- to twenty-four-year-old coming from the lowest quartile.



LGBT





  • Five to six percent of American students are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered (LGBT) — a conservative estimate means there are 2.25 to 2.7 million school-age LGBT youth.





  • 77.9% heard remarks such as “faggot” or “dyke” frequently or often at school (similar studies have shown that the average high school student hears such epithets 25 times a day)

    •  18.8% heard similar remarks from faculty or school staff at least some of the time;
    •  82.9% reported that faculty or staff never or only sometimes intervened when they were present when such remarks were made.


  • 39.1% had been physically harassed (by being shoved or pushed) and 17% had been assaulted (by being punched, kicked or injured with a weapon) at school because of their sexual orientation






  • 44.7% of LGBT students of color reported being verbally harassed because of both their sexual orientation and their race or ethnicity;





  •  50% of lesbian and bisexual young women reported being verbally harassed





  • Gay youth are 41/2 times more likely than non-gay peers to skip school because they feel unsafe;





  •  31% of gay students had missed at least an entire day of school in the past month because they felt unsafe based on their sexual orientation;





  • Nearly one-third of LGBT students drop out of high school to escape the violence, harassment, and isolation they face there — a dropout rate nearly three times the national average;





  •  LGBT students are far more likely than their nongay peers to run away from home, to experience academic problems, and to struggle with substance abuse, low self-esteem, and depression;





  •  Gay youth are 4 times as likely than their non-gay counterparts to have attempted suicide.





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