Abstract

SOLIS, Patricio. Transitioning from secondary to high school in Mexico: The challenge of universal coverage. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2018, vol.40, n.159, pp.66-89. ISSN 0185-2698.

The Mexican Constitution has established that universal access to highschool education must be achieved by 2021. The high drop-out rates at the transition between secondary and high schoolpresent an obstacle in the way of this goal. In this article we analyze two aspects of this transition: secondary school graduations and absorption in the official survey conducted by Mexico’s statistics agency-INEGl’s Encuesta Intercensal of 2015. With these two variables we constructed aggregated indicators at both a national and state level. We also used logistic regression models as dependent variables. The variations between federal entities are not entirely explained by their socioeconomic levels; also, the opportunities for making the transition to high- school education continue to be linked to a combination of disadvantages based on where children live, underlying social inequalities and sociode- mographic aspects that pose an enormous challenge to attaining universal coverage by the beginningof the next decade.

Keywords : High school education; Completion rate; Absorption in education; Education transition Education opportunities; Education inequality.