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2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report
Table 9.Percentage of high school graduates who earned at least the minimum core course curriculum credits, by credit distribution and by student race/ethnicity: Selected years, 1982–2000
| Minimum core curriculum credits | 2000 | 1998 | 1994 | 1990 | 1987 | 1982 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | s.e. | Percent | s.e. | Percent | s.e. | Percent | s.e. | Percent | s.e. | Percent | s.e. | |
| 4 Eng. + 3 S.S. + 3 Math + 3 Sci. + 1/2 Comp. + 2 F.L. | ||||||||||||
| White | 17.4 | 1.42 | 16.2 | 2.04 | 13.1 | 1.01 | 13.9 | 1.06 | 11.0 | 0.99 | 2.2 | 0.29 |
| Black | 17.0 | 1.63 | 13.8 | 1.33 | 10.3 | 1.34 | 11.5 | 1.49 | 6.8 | 1.10 | 0.8 | 0.25 |
| Hispanic | 14.8 | 2.11 | 12.6 | 1.95 | 13.8 | 1.03 | 12.0 | 2.02 | 5.4 | 1.15 | 0.5 | 0.19 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 26.7 | 5.31 | 14.7 | 2.93 | 20.8 | 2.09 | 19.3 | 1.97 | 20.7 | 2.60 | 5.1 | 1.30 |
| American Indian | 10.7 | 2.09 | 11.4 | 4.04 | 8.3 | 1.72 | 3.9 | 1.94 | 2.5 | 0.86 | 0.9 | 0.71 |
| 4 Eng. + 3 S.S. + 3 Math + 3 Sci. + 1/2 Comp. | ||||||||||||
| White | 22.1 | 1.61 | 20.0 | 2.15 | 16.5 | 1.28 | 17.5 | 1.16 | 15.2 | 1.12 | 3.1 | 0.35 |
| Black | 22.8 | 2.10 | 18.2 | 1.64 | 14.9 | 2.55 | 18.9 | 2.08 | 9.1 | 1.16 | 1.0 | 0.27 |
| Hispanic | 17.4 | 2.16 | 15.6 | 2.23 | 15.6 | 1.18 | 13.5 | 2.10 | 7.7 | 1.27 | 0.8 | 0.33 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 29.6 | 5.40 | 16.3 | 3.18 | 22.6 | 2.23 | 21.1 | 2.17 | 22.9 | 2.69 | 5.9 | 1.22 |
| American Indian | 17.3 | 3.77 | 16.0 | 4.07 | 17.1 | 2.70 | 9.8 | 3.58 | 12.7 | 2.38 | 0.9 | 0.71 |
| 4 Eng. + 3 S.S. + 3 Math + 3 Sci. + 2 F.L. | ||||||||||||
| White | 48.8 | 1.62 | 46.3 | 2.17 | 41.8 | 1.33 | 32.1 | 1.44 | 21.1 | 1.19 | 10.5 | 0.48 |
| Black | 44.9 | 2.49 | 39.9 | 3.53 | 30.1 | 1.56 | 23.3 | 2.28 | 15.1 | 1.42 | 5.3 | 1.19 |
| Hispanic | 40.3 | 5.53 | 32.5 | 2.87 | 36.3 | 3.14 | 25.8 | 2.46 | 12.1 | 2.01 | 3.7 | 0.54 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 58.2 | 3.52 | 54.8 | 2.43 | 51.2 | 2.34 | 43.7 | 3.03 | 41.6 | 4.21 | 17.2 | 2.63 |
| American Indian | 26.6 | 3.66 | 29.9 | 4.56 | 22.5 | 4.31 | 9.9 | 3.70 | 5.3 | 1.52 | 3.0 | 1.57 |
| 4 Eng. + 3 S.S. + 3 Math + 3 Sci. | ||||||||||||
| White | 59.1 | 1.75 | 57.4 | 2.71 | 52.9 | 1.71 | 39.9 | 1.62 | 29.1 | 1.39 | 15.5 | 0.66 |
| Black | 63.5 | 2.79 | 57.2 | 4.62 | 44.9 | 2.54 | 39.5 | 3.61 | 23.1 | 2.41 | 11.6 | 1.29 |
| Hispanic | 48.2 | 5.80 | 41.4 | 3.39 | 41.2 | 3.44 | 30.3 | 2.60 | 16.9 | 2.01 | 6.5 | 0.59 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 62.6 | 3.48 | 64.8 | 3.79 | 56.1 | 2.41 | 48.8 | 3.07 | 45.7 | 4.13 | 21.4 | 2.83 |
| American Indian | 42.4 | 5.88 | 42.9 | 4.19 | 46.0 | 3.30 | 20.9 | 4.84 | 25.0 | 3.51 | 8.2 | 4.32 |
| 4 Eng. + 3 S.S. + 2 Math + 2 Sci. | ||||||||||||
| White | 78.2 | 1.86 | 75.4 | 2.67 | 75.7 | 1.70 | 66.0 | 2.32 | 53.1 | 2.19 | 32.5 | 1.30 |
| Black | 82.1 | 2.43 | 78.4 | 3.20 | 76.6 | 2.35 | 73.4 | 3.13 | 55.5 | 3.20 | 31.7 | 2.47 |
| Hispanic | 75.4 | 3.18 | 73.3 | 2.52 | 77.5 | 3.08 | 65.1 | 3.08 | 48.0 | 2.41 | 25.2 | 1.53 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 75.0 | 3.32 | 79.6 | 3.59 | 73.1 | 3.45 | 70.6 | 4.03 | 66.3 | 4.00 | 34.5 | 3.00 |
| American Indian | 72.5 | 4.50 | 80.2 | 4.25 | 77.0 | 3.75 | 47.9 | 6.56 | 64.1 | 5.21 | 23.3 | 6.05 |
NOTE: Subject field abbreviations used in this table include Eng. = English, S.S. = Social Studies, Math = Mathematics, Sci. = Science, Comp. = Computer Science, and F.L. = Foreign Languages. American Indian includes Alaska Native, Black includes African American, Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian, and Hispanic includes Latino. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified. Estimates in this table may differ somewhat from other NCES reports for reasons such as differences in inclusion/exclusion criteria for student records or changes in the taxonomy used to summarize the courses.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), Selected years 1987–2000; High School and Beyond (HS&B), 1982.
Last updated 2 December 2005 (HM)
