I have always believed that the people are at certain income levels due to the level of education that they have obtained. Since income correlated to the AIDS rate, I decided to see if varying levels of education for race and gender correlated with the AIDS rate. When I came across the data on the U.S. Census website, education was broken down by the various levels of education and race as well as gender. The statistical significance of the AIDS rate and education was particularly high in the black community, which also had the lowest median income and had a high percentage of people receiving public assistance.

For black males with less than a 9^th grade education and those with between a 9^th and 12^th grade education with no diploma, the confidence interval was 97.5% and 99% respectively with a positive correlation coefficient of 0.368003 and 0.485325 respectively.

 Black Females with less than a 9^th grade education and those with between a 9^th – 12^th grade education with no diploma also had great positive correlation coefficients of 0.478522 and 0.521714 respectively, both at a 99% confidence interval. This can be due to many factors including upbringing, community, environment and type of schooling. For instance if the school merely met the Missouri Mandates for educating students about AIDS, then the student may not have enough information about the disease. Black schools are not as highly credited as the white schools are. There is a clear inequality between the amount of funds and the quality of education that the black and whites schools receive, varying by district, which is determined by zip code.