| Year | Any mathematics |
Algebra I1 | Geometry | Algebra II2 | Trigonometry | Analysis/ precalculus |
Statistics/ probability |
| Minimum credit earned | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| 1982 | 98.5 | 55.2 | 47.1 | 39.9 | 8.1 | 6.2 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 99.0 | 58.8 | 58.6 | 49.0 | 11.5 | 12.8 | 1.1 |
| 1990 | 99.9 | 63.7 | 63.2 | 52.8 | 9.6 | 13.3 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 99.8 | 65.8 | 70.0 | 61.1 | 11.7 | 17.3 | 2.0 |
| 1998 | 99.8 | 62.8 | 75.1 | 61.7 | 8.9 | 23.1 | 3.7 |
| 2000 | 99.8 | 61.7 | 78.3 | 67.8 | 7.5 | 26.7 | 5.7 |
| 2004 | 99.8 | 59.3 | 75.7 | 67.5 | 9.6 | 28.4 | 7.5 |
| 1Excludes prealgebra. |
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| 2Includes algebra/trigonometry and algebra/geometry. |
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| NOTE: These data only report the percentage of students who earned a minimum amount of credit in each course while in high school and do not include a count of those courses taken prior to entering high school. In 2004, approximately 95 percent of graduates had taken algebra I before or during high school. |
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| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. High School and Beyond Longitudinal Study of 1980 Sophomores, “First Follow-up” (HS&B-So:80/82); National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/92), “Second Follow-up, High School Transcript Survey, 1992”; Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002/04), “High School Transcript Study”; and National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1987, 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2000 High School Transcript Studies (HSTS). |
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