2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report

Table 45-A.Mean NAEP mathematics scores of high school graduates, by completion status of minimum core course curriculum credits and selected school and student demographic characteristics: 2000 (4 Eng. + 3 S.S. + 3 Math + 3 Sci. + 1/2 Comp. + 2 F.L.)

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Characteristic	NAEP mathematics scores of graduates who:
	Earned minimum core curriculum credits			Did not earn minimum core curriculum credits
	Mean	s.e.	N	Mean	s.e.	N
4 Eng. + 3 S.S. + 3 Math + 3 Sci. + 1/2 Comp. + 2 F.L.	315	1.8	1,138	298	1.2	4,893
Student gender
Male	323	2.2	510	298	1.5	2,299
Female	308	1.6	623	299	1.3	2,578
Student race/ethnicity¹
White	321	1.7	698	305	1.3	2,872
Black	286	3.6	179	272	2.3	824
Hispanic	301	2.8	163	281	2.3	832
Asian/Pacific Islander	337	5.8	78	318	4.8	234
American Indian	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
Other	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
Student program
Academic	316	1.7	931	304	1.3	3,365
Vocational	†	†	0	272	4.6	139
Both	310	4.3	207	290	1.9	1,114
Neither	†	†	0	278	2.7	275
Community type
Urban	308	3.2	355	296	1.8	1,381
Suburban	319	2.9	509	301	2.0	2,359
Rural	314	2.6	274	295	2.2	1,153
School type
Public	315	2.0	1,028	297	1.3	4,510
Nonpublic	318	3.1	110	318	3.6	383
Region of the country²
Northeast	315	3.3	130	301	4.1	789
South	311	2.8	705	292	1.8	2,178
Midwest	324	3.5	144	304	1.6	868
West	320	4.6	159	298	3.0	1,058

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† Not applicable. Because of the definitions of the student program types, it is not possible for Vocational or Neither students to take the course combinations shown in all but the last set of indicated minimum credits. Students who took 4 years of English, 3 years of Social Studies, 3 years of Science, and 3 years of Mathematics are, by definition, classified as Academic or Both.

‡ Reporting standards not met. Means and standard errors based on less than 30 observations are not reported. If necessary, so as not to disclose the number of observations in these cells, other cells were not reported.

¹ 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.

² "Region of the country" refers to the Census-defined regions. For more information about Census-defined regions, see the U.S. Census Bureau online publication "Census Regions and Divisions of the United States" (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf [1.1M PDF]).

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.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), 2000.

Last updated 14 March 2007 (HM)