Special Analysis 2007

High School Coursetaking

Table SSA-11. Standard errors for the percentage distribution of high school graduates, by type of English course taken and selected characteristics: 2004

				Advanced academic level

Characteristic	No English	Low academic level	Regular English (no low or honors) courses	Total	Less than 50 percent of courses	50–74 percent of courses	75–100 percent of courses

Total	0.13	0.71	1.15	1.05	0.50	0.46	0.77
Sex
Male	0.13	0.89	1.24	1.06	0.59	0.51	0.71
Female	0.18	0.68	1.35	1.31	0.65	0.64	1.03
Race/ethnicity
White	0.17	0.63	1.34	1.24	0.60	0.58	0.95
Black	0.22	1.82	2.33	1.98	1.04	0.91	1.39
Hispanic	0.44	2.21	2.80	2.26	1.20	0.85	1.32
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.14	1.79	2.69	2.52	1.11	0.99	2.58
American Indian	0.99	4.19	5.73	5.26	1.72	1.40	5.19
Control of school
Public	0.15	0.77	1.24	1.13	0.54	0.47	0.82
Private	0.10	0.99	2.18	2.14	1.04	1.85	1.78

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:80/82); National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, “High School Transcript Study” (NELS:88/92); 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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