Profile of a skipper

Characteristics of the school skippers’ households include: 

  • 57 percent grew up in a two-parent home; 33 percent have been raised by a single mother 
  • 39 percent have moved in the last year; 19 percent have moved at least twice in the last year 
  • 34 percent  have one or more parent who graduated from college 
  • 33 percent have a parent who dropped out of high school—14 percent say neither parent graduated high school and 19 percent say that only one parent graduated high school 
  • 23 percent cite their households as having a lower than average income; 24 percent cite their households as having a higher than average income; 44 percent cite their household as having an average income 

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