Percent of high school graduates earning minimum credits in selected combinations of academic courses, by sex and race/ethnicity: 1982 to 1992

Table 135.

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      Year of graduation       |  All  |    Sex       |        Race/ethnicity
          and course           | stu-  |______________|________________________________
     combinations taken\1\     | dents | Male  |Female| White | Black |Hispanic| Asian
_______________________________|_______|_______|______|_______|_______|________|_______
               1               |   2   |   3   |  4   |   5   |   6   |   7    |   8
_______________________________|_______|_______|______|_______|_______|________|_______
        1982 graduates         |       |       |      |       |       |        |
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  .5 Comp., & 2 F.L.\2\ .......|   1.9 |   2.0 |  1.7 |   2.2 |   0.7 |    0.5 |   6.0
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  & .5 Comp.\3\ ...............|   2.7 |   3.3 |  2.1 |   3.1 |   1.0 |    0.9 |   7.1
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  & 2 F.L. ....................|   8.8 |   8.5 |  9.2 |  10.1 |   5.2 |    3.5 |  17.0
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math |  13.4 |  14.3 | 12.6 |  14.9 |  10.1 |    6.3 |  21.0
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 2 Sci., 2 Math |  29.2 |  29.1 | 29.3 |  30.2 |  28.1 |   23.5 |  34.5
                               |       |       |      |       |       |        |
        1987 graduates         |       |       |      |       |       |        |
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  & .5 Comp., & 2 F.L.\2\ .....|  12.0 |  13.3 | 10.9 |  12.7 |   8.3 |    5.5 |  24.3
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  & .5 Comp.\3\ ...............|  16.3 |  18.4 | 14.4 |  17.2 |  11.7 |    8.6 |  28.1
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  & 2 F.L. ....................|  20.9 |  20.9 | 20.9 |  21.8 |  16.1 |   11.8 |  41.9
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math |  28.6 |  30.1 | 27.2 |  29.7 |  24.3 |   17.9 |  48.3
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 2 Sci., 2 Math |  54.6 |  54.6 | 54.7 |  53.5 |  57.2 |   55.1 |  71.8
                               |       |       |      |       |       |        |
                               |       |       |      |       |       |        |
        1990 graduates         |       |       |      |       |       |        |
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  & .5 Comp., & 2 F.L. \2\.....|  17.3 |  17.7 | 16.9 |  18.1 |  14.4 |   15.7 |  23.8
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  & .5 Comp.\3\ ...............|  22.7 |  23.9 | 21.6 |  22.7 |  25.1 |   20.3 |  27.8
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  & 2 F.L. ....................|  30.6 |  29.8 | 31.4 |  32.6 |  23.4 |   24.8 |  44.1
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math |  39.9 |  40.7 | 39.2 |  40.6 |  41.3 |   32.7 |  51.2
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 2 Sci., 2 Math |  66.8 |  66.2 | 67.3 |  65.4 |  71.8 |   70.4 |  75.5
                               |       |       |      |       |       |        |
                               |       |       |      |       |       |        |
        1992 graduates         |       |       |      |       |       |        |
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  & .5 Comp., & 2 F.L. \2\.....|  23.2 |  20.9 | 25.4 |  23.6 |  21.5 |   19.9 |  29.3
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  & .5 Comp.\3\ ...............|  29.2 |  28.0 | 30.4 |  29.5 |  27.0 |   28.6 |  32.2
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math,|       |       |      |       |       |        |
  & 2 F.L. ....................|  36.9 |  33.9 | 39.8 |  38.8 |  31.9 |   25.0 |  46.0
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 3 Sci., 3 Math |  46.8 |  46.5 | 47.1 |  48.5 |  43.2 |   35.9 |  50.8
4 Eng., 3 S.S., 2 Sci., 2 Math |  72.8 |  72.0 | 73.6 |  72.1 |  77.0 |   73.0 |  76.1
_______________________________|_______|_______|______|_______|_______|________|_______

\1\Eng. = English; S.S. = social studies; Sci. = science; Comp. = computer science; and F.L. = foreign language.
\2\The National Commission on Excellence in Education recommended that all college-bound high school students take these courses as a minimum.
\3\The National Commission on Excellence in Education recommended that all high school students take these courses as a minimum.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "1990 High School Transcript Study," and "National Education Longitudinal Study," Second Followup survey. (This table was prepared March 1994.)

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