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(18KB)| Table 225.50. | 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 |
| [Standard errors appear in parentheses] | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | ‡ | (†) | |
| 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) | |
| !Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent. | |||||||||||||||||
| ‡Reporting standards not met. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is 50 percent or greater. | |||||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||||
| 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.) |
