Quebec francophones are more likely than anglos to be high school dropouts and less likely to have university degrees, according to data released on Tuesday.
The analysis of census numbers compiled by Quebec's statistics institute said the high school education gap between linguistic groups is most pronounced among those 75 and older.
Just over 56 per cent of elderly francophones are high-school dropouts, compared with 37.2 per cent for English people 75 and older.
But there's just a 3.5-point difference in the high-school dropout numbers among anglophones and francophones aged 25-34.
"This suggests that francophones are gaining ground on anglophones," the agency said in a news release.
University gap
But while French speakers are closing the education gap on anglos at the high-school level, the numbers suggest the same has not happened at the university level.
Anglophones were more likely than francophones to have a university education, and that trend was consistent across all age groups, says the statistics agency.
The institute published the numbers to coincide with the 40th anniversary of major educational reforms in the French school system.
