Situation Report

GRADE SCHOOL Only 58% of black school children complete the eighth grade, as against 73% of their white classmates.

HIGH SCHOOL. About 40% of black teen-agers finish high school, compared with 62% of whites. COLLEGE. Black enrollment has almost doubled since 1964, but the relative black total has barely changed: only 6.4% of U.S. undergraduates are black, compared with 5% in 1964. They number 434,000; almost half attend black colleges, mainly in the South. At major integrated universities, perhaps 3 out of 100 students are black.

GRADUATE SCHOOL. Blacks account for an estimated 1% of doctoral candidates (most of them in education), less than 3% of law students and 3% of medical students.

TEACHING. Though 10% of public schoolteachers are black, few become administrators. In New York City, where 32% of students are black, the school system has 24 black principals--out of 893. In 1968, blacks constituted less than 1% of the faculties at 80 public universities. One major predominantly white university (Michigan State) has a black president.

INTEGRATION. Almost 40% of the South's black children now attend partly integrated schools, compared with only about 1% in 1964. Even so, three-quarters of Southern black pupils still attend schools that are at least 95% black. Outside the South, the proportion is nearly 1 out of 2.

PAYOFF. Black educational achievement does not lead to equal income. In 1968, white males who completed grade school earned more ($6,452) than blacks who completed high school ($5,801). White high school graduates earned more than blacks with four or more years of college.

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