 The only students who attend these schools are those of high class and of non-Maya descent.A distressing statistic of how this affects the indigenous communities can be noted, "In Yucatan only 8.9 % of the Mayans have achieved junior high and solely the 6.6% have studied beyond that point.The 83.4% of the Mayans 15 years old and older dropped out of school before finishing junior high."