Student or
school characteristic |
Any remedial
reading |
Two or
fewer courses
of remedial
mathematics only |
Two or more
other remedial
courses, but no
remedial reading |
One remedial
course, not
mathematics
or reading |
No remedial
courses |
|
| Total |
10.6 |
10.9 |
13.2 |
6.7 |
58.6 |
| Race/ethnicity1 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Asian |
10.0 |
7.7 |
13.4 |
6.8 |
62.0 |
| Black |
24.1 |
10.4 |
20.6 |
6.6 |
38.3 |
| White |
7.2 |
10.7 |
10.9 |
6.9 |
64.4 |
| Hispanic |
20.3 |
13.3 |
23.5 |
6.1 |
36.8 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Type of institution first attended |
|
|
|
|
|
| 2-year public |
17.8 |
15.5 |
21.0 |
7.0 |
38.9 |
| 4-year public or private |
5.2 |
7.0 |
6.6 |
6.5 |
74.7 |
| Other subbaccalaureate2 |
6.6 |
12.7 |
19.9 |
9.1 |
51.7 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Delayed entry |
|
|
|
|
|
| Did not delay entry |
10.6 |
9.8 |
11.4 |
6.8 |
61.4 |
| Delayed entry |
9.8 |
15.7 |
22.1 |
6.4 |
46.0 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Urbanicity of high school |
|
|
|
|
|
| Urban |
13.0 |
11.7 |
15.2 |
6.9 |
53.2 |
| Suburban |
10.2 |
9.1 |
11.7 |
6.3 |
62.6 |
| Rural |
9.0 |
11.4 |
13.3 |
7.0 |
58.4 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Socioeconomic status quintile |
|
|
|
|
|
| 81st–100th percentile |
5.9 |
6.8 |
6.8 |
5.3 |
75.2 |
| 61st–80th percentile |
10.8 |
10.1 |
12.6 |
7.7 |
58.8 |
| 41st–60th percentile |
9.9 |
15.4 |
14.2 |
6.2 |
54.3 |
| 21st–40th percentile |
10.6 |
12.1 |
18.2 |
10.1 |
49.0 |
| 1st–20th percentile |
22.9 |
12.9 |
22.1 |
5.3 |
36.8 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Senior test score quintile3 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Highest |
0.4 |
3.1 |
1.8 |
3.6 |
91.1 |
| 2nd |
3.9 |
10.4 |
9.3 |
8.7 |
67.7 |
| 3rd |
10.2 |
17.3 |
17.6 |
8.3 |
46.6 |
| 4th |
19.2 |
15.8 |
24.6 |
7.8 |
32.7 |
| Lowest |
41.1 |
8.6 |
24.0 |
5.5 |
20.7 |
|
1Asian includes Pacific Islander, Black includes African American, and Hispanic includes Latino. Racial categories exclude Hispanic origin.
|
2Includes public less-than-2-year and private less-than-4-year institutions.
|
3Derived variable based on 1992 composite reading and mathematics standardized test scores.
|
NOTE: Data consist of all 12th-graders who subsequently were known participants in postsecondary education. See supplemental note 1 for urbanicity and supplemental note 3 for information on the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000). Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
|
SOURCE: Adelman, C. (2004). Principal Indicators of Student Academic Histories in Postsecondary Education, 1972–2000, tables 7.1 and 7.2. Available at: http://preview.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/prinindicat/index.html. Data from U.S. Department of Education, NCES, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000), “Fourth Follow-up, 2000.”
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