Special Analysis 2007

High School Coursetaking

Table SSA-7. Standard errors for the percentage distribution of high school graduates, by highest level of science course completed and selected characteristics: 2004

				Advanced academic level
Characteristic	No science	Low academic level	General biology	Total	Chemistry I or physics I	Chemistry I and physics I	Chemistry II, physics II, and/ or advanced biology

Total	0.09	0.48	0.86	0.91	0.87	0.79	0.76
Sex
Male	0.15	0.62	0.98	1.07	0.95	0.87	0.87
Female	0.08	0.47	1.00	1.04	1.07	0.92	0.89
Race/ethnicity
White	0.09	0.53	1.04	1.09	1.03	0.92	0.96
Black	0.31	0.97	1.83	2.00	2.15	1.66	1.36
Hispanic	0.25	1.28	1.85	2.02	1.70	1.76	0.97
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.27	0.61	1.46	1.56	1.80	1.72	2.41
American Indian	†	4.36	8.83	7.63	6.50	5.40	3.04
Control of school
Public	0.09	0.53	0.92	0.97	0.93	0.82	0.80
Private	0.11	0.49	1.60	1.71	2.17	2.58	2.01

† Not applicable.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002/04), “High School Transcript Study.”

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