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Table 13. Percentage of private schools with 12th-graders in 2020-21, number of graduates, graduation rate, and percentage of graduates who attended 4-year colleges, by selected characteristics: United States, school year 2021–22


Selected characteristic	Percent of schools with 12th-graders in 2020–21		Number of 2020–21 graduates		2020–21 graduation rate¹		Percent of 2020–21 graduates who attended 4-year colleges by fall 2021
Total	33.0		331,584		96.0		62.5

Private school typology
Catholic	23.1		137,873		98.6		83.7
Parochial	7.5		9,133		94.9		77.0
Diocesan	19.7		65,688		98.7		83.8
Private	58.8		63,052		99.1		85.0

Other religious	37.8		106,384		96.8		60.0
Conservative Christian	63.7		41,557		95.6		61.2
Other affiliated	35.1		36,188		98.7		68.8
Unaffiliated	25.2		28,639		96.2		51.5

Nonsectarian	32.4		87,327		91.2		56.5
Regular	30.2		65,483		98.7		77.7
Special emphasis	19.7		15,048		84.1		57.0
Special education	64.1		6,795		58.7		21.7

School level
Elementary/Middle	†		†		†		†
Secondary/High	92.9		195,886		97.1		68.8
Combined/Other²	75.7		135,698		94.4		59.3

Program emphasis
Regular elementary/ secondary	36.2		298,453		98.6		69.1
Montessori	2.9		627		98.5		75.4
Special program emphasis	37.1		11,838		97.6		75.1
Special education	63.1		7,353		58.9		22.3
Vocational/technical	90.9		1,772		85.0		48.5
Alternative	54.0		11,464		74.1		42.4
Early childhood	†		†		†		†

Size (number of students)
Less than 50	19.3		7,648		76.9		36.1
50 -149	33.6		24,777		87.3		51.5
150- 299	35.6		42,725		95.2		70.7
300-499	51.8		64,719		97.4		80.9
500-749	75.1		72,741		99.4		86.0
750 or more	90.6		118,974		97.0		89.1

Region
Northeast	32.1		80,778		96.3		60.2
Midwest	24.7		64,854		95.1		61.9
South	40.4		121,491		96.2		63.7
West	30.2		64,460		96.1		62.7

Urbancity type
City	32.8		155,762		97.4		68.7
Suburban	32.0		127,664		94.6		64.2
Town	32.2		13,002		96.7		56.7
Rural	35.4		35,156		94.7		51.3
† Not applicable.
¹ The 2020–21 graduation rate is the percent of 12th graders enrolled around October 1, 2020 who graduated in 2020–21.
² Includes the schools that reported 12th grade enrollment for 2020–21, but were elementary in 2021–22 (less than 1 percent).
NOTE: These estimates include private schools which provide instruction for one or more of grades kindergarten through twelve (or comparable ungraded levels). Beginning with the 2021-22 PSS, the way ungraded levels were categorized in the school level variable was changed, and data in this table are based on the new categorization. Caution should be exercised when comparing estimates by school level over time. For more information, see the PSS User's Manual (Iaconelli et al., 2023, NCES 2024-011).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2021–22.

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