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Approximately 5 percent of the population reported no formal schooling and

33 percent had completed less than seven grades. Approximately 11 percent

had completed high school. The number of individuals reporting education

above the high school level constituted 3 percent of the population.

 The relatively high proportion of persons with low levels of educa-

tion can be attributed mainly to the age composition of the population. On

the average, individuals reporting in the age group 25 to 39 years had com-

pleted one year in high school; those aged 40 to 54 years had completed about

the seventh grade; and, those aged 55 to 69 years had completed about the

fifth grade. One in eight of those persons over 55 years of age reported no

formal schooling. With such a relationship existing between age and educa-

tion, and with 37 percent of the adult population over 50 years of age,

average educational levels for the population as a whole were low.

 Substantial differences in educational levels existed between the

white and nonwhite populations. The nonwhite population had greater propor-

tions in the three lowest educational classes (no schooling, 1 to 4 years and

5 to 6 years) than the white population. Fifty-one percent of the nonwhite

population was in these three classes compared with 30 percent of the white

population. Above the sixth grade level, the reverse was true for each edu-

cational class. Approximately 14 percent of the white population had com-

pleted high school compared with 5 percent of the nonwhite population. For

both the white and nonwhite populations, females had smaller proportions than

males in the three lowest educational classes.

 Although the ratio of males to females in the group aged 14 to 29

years was approximately 1 to 1 (282 males and 278 females), there are 9 males

for every 8 females still in school. Among the white population, there were

189 males age 14 to 29 at home compared with 168 females (a ratio of 1.1 to