Table E-20-1. Percentage of spring 2000 first-graders who scored in the top half of the fifth-grade ECLS-K mathematics assessment and of those who scored in the top half, the percentage enrolled in algebra or an advanced course other than algebra in the eighth grade, by sex and race/ethnicity: Spring 2004 and spring 2007
| Race/ethnicity |
Percentage scoring in the top half of the fifth-grade mathematics assessment |
| Total |
|
Male |
|
Female |
|
Enrolled in algebra or an advanced course other than algebra in eighth grade |
| |
|
|
Total |
|
Male |
|
Female |
|
| Total |
50.0 |
|
53.8 |
|
46.2 |
|
57.7 |
|
51.1 |
|
65.6 |
|
| White |
60.8 |
|
64.8 |
|
56.6 |
|
60.3 |
|
53.7 |
|
68.3 |
|
| Black |
24.3 |
|
28.3 |
|
20.9 |
|
25.8 |
|
19.8 |
! |
34.3 |
! |
| Hispanic |
36.3 |
|
36.3 |
|
36.2 |
|
58.4 |
|
51.3 |
|
65.6 |
|
| Asian |
59.7 |
|
75.2 |
|
49.8 |
|
86.4 |
|
91.5 |
|
81.5 |
|
| Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander |
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
| American Indian/Alaska Native |
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
| Two or more races |
59.3 |
|
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
55.4 |
|
‡ |
|
‡ |
|
| ! Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is 30 percent or greater. |
| ‡ Reporting standards not met (too few cases). |
| NOTE: Estimates represent all U.S. students who attended 1st grade in the spring of 2000 and then were in a U.S. 8th grade in the 2006–07 school year. “Algebra or an advanced course other than algebra ” includes algebra I, integrated or sequential mathematics, algebra II, and geometry. Estimates were weighted by C7CPTM0. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. |
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–99 (ECLS-K), Kindergarten-Eighth Grade Full Sample Public-Use Data File. |
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