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| Table 162. | Percentage of public and private high school graduates earning minimum credits in selected combinations of academic courses, by sex and race/ethnicity: Selected years, 1982 through 2009 |
| Year of graduation and course combination taken1 | All students2 | Sex | Race/ethnicity | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | White | Black | Hispanic | Asian/ Pacific Islander | American Indian/ Alaska Native | ||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||||||
| 1982 graduates | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 FL3 |
9.5 | (0.57) | 9.1 | (0.70) | 9.9 | (0.71) | 10.9 | (0.69) | 5.2 | (1.02) | 3.9 | (0.57) | 17.0 | (2.49) | 3.3 | (1.68) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 14.3 | (0.66) | 15.2 | (0.86) | 13.4 | (0.79) | 15.9 | (0.79) | 11.0 | (1.39) | 6.7 | (0.79) | 21.1 | (2.65) | 8.1 | (3.02) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 31.5 | (1.07) | 31.7 | (1.26) | 31.3 | (1.22) | 32.4 | (1.21) | 30.8 | (2.32) | 25.6 | (1.76) | 32.0 | (3.40) | 23.6 | (5.39) |
| 1987 graduates | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 FL3 |
18.1 | (0.91) | 18.0 | (1.13) | 18.3 | (1.01) | 19.0 | (1.10) | 12.7 | (1.15) | 10.8 | (1.70) | 35.7 | (4.49) | 4.9 | (1.40) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 24.8 | (1.03) | 25.9 | (1.27) | 23.7 | (1.07) | 26.1 | (1.21) | 19.6 | (1.99) | 14.5 | (1.69) | 39.8 | (4.51) | 24.3 | (3.69) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 48.1 | (1.74) | 48.0 | (2.22) | 48.4 | (1.56) | 48.1 | (2.15) | 48.3 | (2.63) | 43.9 | (1.92) | 57.9 | (4.82) | 61.8 | (5.56) |
| 1990 graduates | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 FL3 |
29.9 | (1.26) | 28.8 | (1.38) | 31.0 | (1.36) | 31.7 | (1.46) | 22.9 | (2.27) | 25.4 | (2.41) | 42.6 | (2.95) | 9.9 | (3.70) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 38.2 | (1.50) | 38.5 | (1.69) | 37.9 | (1.54) | 39.2 | (1.63) | 39.0 | (3.57) | 29.8 | (2.51) | 47.4 | (3.04) | 19.2 | (4.70) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 65.5 | (1.96) | 64.3 | (2.09) | 66.4 | (1.98) | 64.9 | (2.28) | 71.3 | (3.00) | 63.7 | (3.01) | 69.1 | (3.90) | 46.3 | (6.39) |
| 1994 graduates | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 FL3 |
39.0 | (1.12) | 35.0 | (1.11) | 42.7 | (1.33) | 41.6 | (1.32) | 29.6 | (1.52) | 35.6 | (2.94) | 50.1 | (2.39) | 22.5 | (4.31) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 49.3 | (1.45) | 47.0 | (1.45) | 51.5 | (1.58) | 52.4 | (1.67) | 43.7 | (2.39) | 40.3 | (3.25) | 54.9 | (2.46) | 46.0 | (3.30) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 73.9 | (1.50) | 71.2 | (1.63) | 76.4 | (1.46) | 75.1 | (1.69) | 74.5 | (2.32) | 74.7 | (2.61) | 72.3 | (3.62) | 76.3 | (3.60) |
| 1998 graduates | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 FL3 |
44.2 | (1.92) | 40.5 | (2.19) | 48.2 | (2.05) | 46.2 | (2.16) | 40.0 | (3.41) | 32.0 | (2.94) | 57.8 | (4.51) | 28.3 | (4.53) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 55.0 | (2.44) | 52.9 | (2.64) | 57.8 | (2.48) | 56.8 | (2.69) | 55.6 | (4.39) | 40.0 | (3.28) | 66.1 | (5.69) | 40.0 | (4.73) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 74.5 | (2.18) | 72.8 | (2.34) | 77.0 | (2.14) | 74.7 | (2.64) | 76.0 | (3.21) | 70.1 | (2.57) | 79.5 | (4.76) | 76.4 | (5.21) |
| 2000 graduates | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 FL3 |
47.8 | (1.53) | 41.5 | (1.68) | 53.4 | (1.65) | 48.9 | (1.60) | 45.6 | (2.27) | 40.3 | (5.47) | 58.2 | (3.48) | 26.8 | (3.63) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 58.6 | (1.64) | 54.4 | (1.70) | 62.3 | (1.75) | 59.2 | (1.74) | 64.1 | (2.51) | 48.3 | (5.74) | 62.7 | (3.44) | 42.5 | (5.84) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 78.2 | (1.60) | 74.9 | (1.88) | 81.2 | (1.43) | 78.3 | (1.85) | 82.5 | (2.26) | 75.4 | (3.16) | 75.0 | (3.27) | 72.6 | (4.48) |
| 2005 graduates | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 FL3 |
54.7 | (0.96) | 49.0 | (1.14) | 60.1 | (0.94) | 55.5 | (1.19) | 54.3 | (1.87) | 46.3 | (2.08) | 66.7 | (2.10) | 38.1 | (3.37) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 67.4 | (1.02) | 63.5 | (1.22) | 71.0 | (0.94) | 68.5 | (1.29) | 72.3 | (1.76) | 53.5 | (2.20) | 72.2 | (2.05) | 60.9 | (3.40) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 83.0 | (1.02) | 80.3 | (1.19) | 85.4 | (0.94) | 82.1 | (1.34) | 89.7 | (0.91) | 79.6 | (1.38) | 85.0 | (1.68) | 81.0 | (3.10) |
| 2009 graduates | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 FL3 |
61.8 | (0.84) | 57.4 | (1.06) | 66.0 | (0.82) | 62.4 | (0.94) | 58.4 | (1.71) | 58.4 | (1.65) | 73.1 | (2.28) | 43.0 | (3.44) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 74.3 | (0.81) | 72.1 | (0.96) | 76.4 | (0.77) | 75.0 | (1.04) | 78.1 | (1.20) | 67.2 | (1.49) | 76.9 | (2.08) | 64.7 | (4.23) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 87.7 | (0.74) | 86.2 | (0.82) | 89.1 | (0.73) | 86.8 | (0.97) | 92.0 | (0.63) | 88.0 | (0.87) | 86.1 | (1.52) | 86.6 | (2.99) |
| 1 Eng = English; SS = social studies; Sci = science; and FL = foreign language. | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 Totals include other racial/ethnic groups not separately shown. | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education recommended that all college-bound high school students take these courses plus 0.5 credits of computer science as a minimum. | ||||||||||||||||
| NOTE: Data differ slightly from figures appearing in other NCES reports because of differences in taxonomies and case exclusion criteria. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Standard errors appear in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School and Beyond Longitudinal Study of 1980 Sophomores (HS&B-So:80/82), "High School Transcript Study"; and 1987, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2005, and 2009 High School Transcript Study (HSTS). (This table was prepared October 2011.) |
