---
title: "Hispanics and the GED"
description: "Just one-in-ten among Hispanic high school dropouts has a GED, far less  than the percentages of white (29%) and black (20%) high school dropouts with GEDs."
date: "2010-05-26"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2010/05/26/hispanics-and-the-ged/"
---

# Hispanics and the GED

Hispanics have a much higher high school dropout rate than do blacks or whites, but far fewer Hispanics obtain a General Educational Development (GED) credential. Some 41% of Hispanics ages 20 and older in the U.S. do not have a regular high school diploma, versus 23% of comparably aged blacks and 14% of whites. But only one-in-ten Hispanic high school dropouts (9%) have a GED. By contrast, 20% of black high school dropouts and 29% of white high school dropouts have obtained a GED. There are significant educational differences between native-born and foreign-born Hispanics. Foreign-born Hispanics are far more likely not to graduate high school (52% dropouts) than are the native born (25% dropouts). Among dropouts, just 5% of the foreign born have GEDs while 21% of the native born do. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1593/hispanic-black-white-ged-high-school-dropout-rate)