Four- and six-year graduation rates for Blacks and Hispanics also lagged behind systemwide averages, according to the report. Roughly 12 percent of Black students who entered the system as freshmen in 1996 graduated by 2000, and 16.9 percent of the Hispanic students in the same class graduated in four years, compared to 25 percent of all state system students.
Six-year graduation rates for the 1996 freshmen were about 37 percent for Blacks, 40 percent for Hispanics, and 52 percent for all state system students, according to the report.
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