2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report

Table 50-E.Mean NAEP science scores of high school graduates, by completion status of minimum core course curriculum credits and selected school and student demographic characteristics: 2000 (4 Eng. + 3 S.S. + 2 Math + 2 Sci.)

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Characteristic	NAEP science scores of graduates who:
	Earned minimum core curriculum credits			Did not earn minimum core curriculum credits
	Mean	s.e.	N	Mean	s.e.	N
4 Eng. + 3 S.S. + 2 Math + 2 Sci.	149	1.0	6,107	139	2.4	1,285
Student gender
Male	151	1.4	2,717	141	2.9	685
Female	148	1.0	3,388	137	2.5	600
Student race/ethnicity¹
White	156	1.1	3,576	144	2.7	750
Black	123	1.6	1,074	120	4.6	179
Hispanic	132	2.0	976	122	3.3	236
Asian/Pacific Islander	163	3.2	314	139	9.5	84
American Indian	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
Other	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
Student program
Academic	152	1.0	4,584	148	2.6	628
Vocational	‡	‡	‡	128	3.9	149
Both	139	1.8	1,464	135	4.3	243
Neither	‡	‡	‡	126	2.9	265
Community type
Urban	146	2.6	1,737	135	3.6	368
Suburban	152	1.5	2,812	144	2.4	552
Rural	147	1.8	1,558	135	5.0	365
School type
Public	148	1.1	5,727	137	2.8	1,209
Nonpublic	164	1.9	380	161	3.5	76
Region of the country²
Northeast	152	2.8	836	145	5.5	262
South	144	1.4	3,256	132	4.5	321
Midwest	154	1.3	913	144	3.5	337
West	151	3.0	1,102	134	6.4	365

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‡ Reporting standards not met. Means and standard errors based on less than 30 observations are not reported. If necessary, so as not to disclose the number of observations in these cells, other cells were not reported.

¹ American Indian includes Alaska Native, Black includes African American, Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian, and Hispanic includes Latino. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified.

² "Region of the country" refers to the Census-defined regions. For more information about Census-defined regions, see the U.S. Census Bureau online publication "Census Regions and Divisions of the United States" (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf [1.1M PDF]).

NOTE: Subject field abbreviations used in this table include Eng. = English, S.S. = Social Studies, Math = Mathematics, Sci. = Science, Comp. = Computer Science, and F.L. = Foreign Languages.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), 2000.

Last updated 23 May 2007 (MH)