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| Table 225.75. | Percentage of 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-graders whose school reported offering selected classes and percentage of 8th-graders whose schools reported having students who take high school math classes, by selected student and school characteristics: 2015 and 2017 |
| [Standard errors appear in parentheses] | ||||||||||||||
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| Selected student or school characteristic | 2017 | 20151 | ||||||||||||
| Percent of 4th-graders whose school offers programming classes | Percent of 8th-graders whose school | Percent of 12th-graders whose school offers courses in computer science at least 1 semester long | ||||||||||||
| Offers selected classes | Has students who take high school math classes | Tota1, any courses at least 1 semester long2 | Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science A3 | Courses in computer science other than AP3 | ||||||||||
| Programming classes | Algebra classes equivalent to high school algebra classes | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |||||||
| Total | 34.5 | (0.98) | 48.3 | (0.94) | 83.4 | (0.68) | 74.4 | (0.75) | 43.8 | (2.29) | 23.2 | (1.92) | 37.3 | (2.25) |
| Sex | ||||||||||||||
| Male | 34.2 | (0.99) | 48.0 | (0.96) | 83.1 | (0.73) | 74.3 | (0.74) | 43.8 | (2.34) | 23.8 | (1.99) | 37.6 | (2.23) |
| Female | 34.8 | (1.01) | 48.6 | (0.97) | 83.7 | (0.69) | 74.5 | (0.80) | 43.7 | (2.40) | 22.5 | (1.94) | 37.0 | (2.43) |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||||||||
| White | 36.3 | (1.02) | 47.8 | (0.90) | 86.2 | (0.63) | 78.0 | (0.79) | 44.7 | (2.75) | 23.1 | (2.28) | 38.5 | (2.71) |
| Black | 25.8 | (1.09) | 40.7 | (1.58) | 79.5 | (1.11) | 70.7 | (1.25) | 35.0 | (2.79) | 18.8 | (2.60) | 28.3 | (2.53) |
| Hispanic | 34.5 | (1.90) | 50.5 | (2.11) | 78.2 | (1.53) | 67.3 | (1.42) | 43.2 | (2.88) | 23.7 | (1.98) | 35.9 | (2.79) |
| Asian | 43.8 | (2.84) | 62.5 | (2.56) | 87.5 | (1.76) | 78.7 | (1.97) | 57.7 | (4.24) | 31.5 | (4.25) | 51.4 | (4.46) |
| Pacific Islander | 39.4 | (4.05) | 62.9 | (3.37) | 79.6 | (3.95) | 70.1 | (3.67) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 26.2 | (2.19) | 35.6 | (2.54) | 78.3 | (2.59) | 70.0 | (2.70) | 30.2 | (10.57) | 14.7 | (6.30) | 23.3 | (8.29) |
| Two or more races | 33.1 | (1.34) | 50.6 | (1.70) | 88.6 | (1.16) | 80.9 | (1.28) | 53.1 | (3.95) | 29.0 | (3.83) | 47.2 | (4.04) |
| English language learner (ELL) status | ||||||||||||||
| ELL | 32.9 | (2.06) | 49.8 | (2.25) | 77.0 | (1.97) | 67.1 | (1.85) | 40.2 | (4.10) | 25.4 | (3.45) | 32.2 | (4.05) |
| Non-ELL | 34.7 | (0.97) | 48.2 | (0.92) | 83.8 | (0.65) | 74.9 | (0.74) | 43.7 | (2.30) | 22.9 | (1.90) | 37.3 | (2.27) |
| Disability status4 | ||||||||||||||
| Identified as student with disability (SD) | 33.1 | (1.18) | 46.4 | (1.20) | 82.8 | (0.85) | 74.2 | (0.90) | 40.1 | (3.18) | 18.9 | (2.33) | 35.2 | (3.08) |
| Not identified as SD | 34.7 | (0.98) | 48.6 | (0.95) | 83.5 | (0.70) | 74.4 | (0.77) | 43.8 | (2.29) | 23.2 | (1.91) | 37.1 | (2.26) |
| Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch | ||||||||||||||
| Eligible | 29.7 | (1.10) | 44.3 | (1.28) | 79.0 | (1.00) | 70.0 | (0.94) | 35.1 | (2.35) | 18.0 | (1.80) | 29.2 | (2.26) |
| Not eligible | 39.7 | (1.17) | 51.2 | (1.02) | 86.8 | (0.67) | 79.6 | (0.88) | 48.2 | (2.93) | 25.5 | (2.47) | 40.6 | (2.91) |
| Unknown | 37.4 | (3.35) | 55.2 | (3.74) | 89.6 | (1.84) | 68.0 | (3.07) | 60.5 | (6.41) | 35.8 | (7.03) | 58.2 | (6.00) |
| Percent of students in school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch5 |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 46.0 | (2.14) | 59.0 | (1.99) | 89.0 | (1.61) | 84.0 | (1.45) | 60.7 | (6.28) | 36.6 | (5.29) | 52.4 | (6.17) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 36.0 | (1.92) | 47.0 | (1.63) | 87.0 | (1.09) | 79.0 | (1.55) | 41.4 | (3.55) | 21.8 | (2.83) | 33.1 | (3.83) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 30.0 | (2.12) | 44.0 | (2.29) | 86.0 | (1.43) | 78.0 | (1.81) | 37.3 | (4.18) | 19.3 | (3.52) | 29.9 | (4.10) |
| 76 to 100 percent | 27.0 | (1.69) | 40.0 | (2.31) | 68.0 | (1.89) | 58.0 | (1.62) | 25.0 | (4.29) | 7.9 | (2.42) | 22.9 | (4.31) |
| School control6 | ||||||||||||||
| Public | 34.3 | (1.01) | 48.3 | (0.98) | 83.4 | (0.75) | 75.6 | (0.79) | 43.3 | (2.51) | 22.6 | (1.99) | 36.3 | (2.47) |
| Private | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| School locale | ||||||||||||||
| City | 34.5 | (1.52) | 51.5 | (1.83) | 82.4 | (1.42) | 71.2 | (1.25) | 43.7 | (3.24) | 27.6 | (3.16) | 35.9 | (3.70) |
| Large | 35.4 | (2.16) | 51.5 | (2.43) | 78.3 | (1.90) | 67.6 | (1.53) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| Midsize | 29.8 | (3.18) | 55.3 | (4.05) | 79.2 | (4.03) | 68.4 | (4.53) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| Small | 37.2 | (3.10) | 48.2 | (2.58) | 93.3 | (0.98) | 80.9 | (2.86) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| Suburban | 40.5 | (1.40) | 55.2 | (1.55) | 87.0 | (0.87) | 77.6 | (1.30) | 53.4 | (4.11) | 28.6 | (3.40) | 45.4 | (3.93) |
| Large | 41.1 | (1.48) | 56.7 | (1.63) | 87.2 | (0.91) | 77.8 | (1.30) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| Midsize | 43.2 | (4.43) | 47.0 | (6.18) | 86.8 | (2.94) | 76.8 | (4.85) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| Small | 27.2 | (5.20) | 46.0 | (6.50) | 84.1 | (5.34) | 76.1 | (5.39) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| Town | 26.3 | (2.51) | 36.9 | (1.86) | 77.7 | (2.56) | 69.4 | (2.49) | 34.9 | (6.90) | 9.0 | (3.94) | 32.3 | (6.63) |
| Fringe | 34.9 | (6.19) | 47.8 | (4.48) | 85.2 | (2.95) | 78.4 | (5.65) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| Distant | 20.9 | (2.24) | 30.2 | (2.64) | 78.1 | (3.19) | 69.2 | (3.18) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| Remote | 27.2 | (4.13) | 40.0 | (4.32) | 71.7 | (5.40) | 63.1 | (5.21) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| Rural | 26.4 | (1.48) | 35.4 | (1.94) | 80.4 | (1.41) | 75.1 | (1.47) | 28.9 | (4.37) | 14.1 | (3.26) | 24.9 | (4.23) |
| Fringe | 30.1 | (2.38) | 41.1 | (2.87) | 86.2 | (1.29) | 79.1 | (2.00) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| Distant | 23.9 | (2.75) | 27.2 | (1.91) | 73.9 | (2.96) | 70.7 | (3.10) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| Remote | 13.8 | (2.15) | 27.1 | (5.06) | 64.8 | (4.27) | 64.3 | (4.15) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) |
| ---Not available. | ||||||||||||||
| †Not applicable. | ||||||||||||||
| ‡Reporting standards not met (too few cases for a reliable estimate). | ||||||||||||||
| 1 Data for 2015 are shown because 12th-graders were not assessed in 2017. | ||||||||||||||
| 2 Total includes students whose schools offered AP Computer Science A courses, courses in computer science other than AP, or both types of courses. In the total, students whose schools offered semester-long courses in both AP Computer Science A and non-AP computer science are counted only once. | ||||||||||||||
| 3 Includes only courses at least 1 semester long. | ||||||||||||||
| 4 In addition to students with an Individualized Education Program (IEP), also includes students with a 504 plan. | ||||||||||||||
| 5 In 2017, the nonresponse rate for the percentage of students in the school who were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch was greater than 15 percent but not greater than 50 percent. | ||||||||||||||
| 6 Bureau of Indian Education and Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools are excluded from the Public category but included elsewhere in this table. The Private category was created by combining two school types: Catholic and Other private. | ||||||||||||||
| NOTE: Includes public, private, Bureau of Indian Education, and DoDEA schools. Includes students tested with accommodations (9 to 12 percent of all students, depending on grade); excludes only those students with disabilities and English language learners who were unable to be tested even with accommodations(2 percent of all students at all grades). Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. | ||||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2015 and 2017 Mathematics Assessment, retrieved April 24, 2019, from the Main NAEP Data Explorer (https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/). (This table was prepared April 2019.) |
