Bachelor’s Degree Attainment Rate
(moving 3-year average)
tests compared to their peers in other countries.40 In low-income school districts, where the
majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and breakfast, lower test scores
reflect the different socioeconomic realities of these children’s lives.41
College can make a world of difference in equalizing inequalities that begin at birth. More
than half of children born into the poorest 20 percent of the population (the bottom quintile)
who complete a four-year college degree make it to the middle quintile or higher.42
But children from low-income
families have to foot more of the
Figure i.11 Estimated Baccalaureate Degree Attainment by Age 24
bill for their postsecondary edu
by Family Income Quartile, 1970-2009
cation than their counterparts a
90%
generation ago. While the cost
82.4%
of post-secondary education has
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