Only 8 percent of the workers had college degrees and only 11 percent were secondary-school graduates.

Approximately 34 percent, one of the world's highest rates of secondary-school graduates attended institutions of higher education in 1987, a rate similar to Japan's (about 30 percent) and exceeding Britain's (20 percent).

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani sought to establish a Private university to address the challenges posed during early years of Iranian Revolution -such as Cultural Revolution- and to meet increasing demands of secondary-school graduates for higher education in Iran.

The State Education Commission and the Ministry of Finance issued a joint declaration for nationwide unified enrollment of adult students - not the regular secondary-school graduates but the members of the work force who qualified for admission by taking a test.

More than 81 percent of high school graduates go on to higher education.

Of the 1996 high school graduating class, 91 percent went on to college.

Now 67 percent of high school graduates are going on to college.

High school graduates would leave, as they often do now.

Of the the 85 high school graduates last year, 92 percent went on to higher education.

In 1979, only about one of every three high school graduates went to college.

The percent of high school graduates at age 25+ between the years 2005 and 2009 was 75.9%.

He is almost certainly a high school graduate, perhaps with a college education or even more.

There were only 15 kids in our high school graduating class.

Few high school graduates who have any job at all are poor.

In California, higher education is open to all high school graduates.

That's how I come to be a high school graduate, you see.

People - the 18- to 24-year-old high school graduates 10 years ago were making more than they are now.

About four million college and high school graduates do not have jobs.

Under 8 percent of those 25 and older were not high school graduates.

One year, only 7 percent of students in a district high school graduated.

He is a high school graduate and does not have a college degree.

The system was designed to provide a place in college for every California high school graduate.

The young men and women in this year's high school graduating class know all of that.

The Americans should put all their high school graduates into the military for a few years, he decided.

Young high school graduates cannot expect to do even that well.

Only recently could he imagine himself as a high school graduate.

In 1883, these schools produced their first high school graduates.

Over 70% of high school graduates continued to higher education.

In 1995, 9.4 percent of high school graduates reported an A+ average.