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| Table 225.30. | Percentage of public and private high school graduates who took selected mathematics and science courses in high school, by sex and race/ethnicity: Selected years, 1990 through 2019 |
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| Course (Carnegie units) | 1990 | 2000 | 2009 | 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total1 | Sex | Race/ethnicity | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Male | Female | White | Black | Hispanic | Asian/Pacific Islander | American Indian/ Alaska Native |
Two or more races | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | Asian | Pacific Islander | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | |||||||||||||||
Mathematics2 |
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| Any mathematics (≥1.0) | 100.0 | (#) | 99.8 | (0.05) | 100.0 | (#) | 100.0 | (#) | 99.9 | (#) | 100.0 | (#) | 100.0 | (#) | 100.0 | (#) | 100.0 | (#) | 100.0 | (#) | 100.0 | (#) | 100.0 | (#) | 100.0 | (#) | 100.0 | (#) | |
| Algebra I (≥1.0)3 | 69.5 | (1.26) | 74.5 | (1.44) | 76.0 | (0.84) | 82.5 | (0.62) | 82.6 | (0.63) | 82.5 | (0.69) | 79.2 | (0.94) | 90.0 | (0.58) | 89.1 | (0.63) | 65.6 | (2.06) | 65.2 | (2.07) | 74.1 | (5.05) | 82.9 | (2.06) | 80.3 | (1.10) | |
| Geometry (≥1.0) | 63.7 | (1.34) | 79.1 | (1.13) | 87.8 | (0.65) | 90.4 | (0.40) | 89.6 | (0.43) | 91.1 | (0.44) | 91.0 | (0.53) | 92.2 | (0.62) | 90.5 | (0.61) | 82.4 | (1.34) | 82.1 | (1.36) | 88.4 | (3.31) | 84.3 | (2.20) | 88.5 | (1.20) | |
| Algebra II (≥0.5)4 | 55.3 | (1.10) | 70.8 | (1.01) | 79.6 | (0.81) | 84.9 | (0.42) | 83.1 | (0.50) | 86.8 | (0.44) | 87.0 | (0.47) | 81.9 | (1.02) | 81.9 | (0.74) | 88.1 | (0.91) | 88.4 | (0.94) | 82.6 | (3.94) | 76.4 | (2.37) | 86.1 | (1.18) | |
| Trigonometry (≥0.5) | 9.6 | (1.07) | 7.3 | (1.30) | 6.0 | (0.76) | 3.3 | (0.24) | 3.1 | (0.24) | 3.5 | (0.27) | 4.1 | (0.39) | 2.1 | (0.26) | 2.4 | (0.26) | 2.4 | (0.40) | 2.5 | (0.41) | # | (†) | 6.4 | (1.55) | 3.9 | (0.60) | |
| Analysis/pre-calculus (≥0.5) | 13.3 | (0.95) | 26.6 | (1.40) | 35.9 | (0.84) | 40.3 | (0.60) | 38.3 | (0.69) | 42.3 | (0.65) | 43.8 | (0.85) | 28.7 | (0.92) | 34.2 | (0.94) | 64.6 | (1.75) | 65.6 | (1.78) | 41.1 | (5.03) | 25.5 | (2.42) | 44.2 | (1.81) | |
| Statistics/probability (≥0.5) | 1.0 | (0.21) | 5.7 | (0.85) | 12.9 | (0.75) | 16.7 | (0.48) | 15.8 | (0.50) | 17.6 | (0.55) | 18.8 | (0.79) | 12.4 | (0.80) | 11.9 | (0.61) | 29.5 | (1.38) | 30.2 | (1.41) | 13.0 | (3.64) | 9.2 | (1.90) | 18.7 | (1.23) | |
| Calculus (≥1.0) | 6.5 | (0.46) | 11.6 | (0.72) | 17.2 | (0.71) | 15.1 | (0.37) | 15.3 | (0.44) | 14.8 | (0.48) | 17.5 | (0.45) | 5.8 | (0.39) | 8.9 | (0.48) | 43.0 | (1.77) | 44.5 | (1.81) | 8.9 | (2.36) | 6.8 | (1.22) | 17.7 | (1.30) | |
Science2 |
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| Any science (≥1.0) | 99.6 | (0.11) | 99.5 | (0.11) | 99.9 | (#) | 99.7 | (0.05) | 99.6 | (0.07) | 99.8 | (0.05) | 99.6 | (0.08) | 99.8 | (0.06) | 99.8 | (0.06) | 100.0 | (#) | 100.0 | (#) | 99.1 | (0.98) | 99.7 | (0.36) | 99.9 | (0.09) | |
| Biology (≥1.0) | 91.2 | (0.97) | 90.9 | (1.04) | 94.7 | (0.56) | 95.8 | (0.25) | 95.1 | (0.30) | 96.6 | (0.24) | 96.4 | (0.32) | 96.1 | (0.40) | 94.6 | (0.49) | 96.1 | (0.45) | 96.4 | (0.44) | 91.0 | (2.53) | 95.3 | (1.17) | 93.9 | (1.00) | |
| Chemistry (≥1.0) | 48.7 | (1.23) | 61.3 | (1.46) | 69.6 | (0.74) | 73.2 | (0.54) | 70.2 | (0.60) | 76.3 | (0.58) | 74.6 | (0.80) | 68.2 | (0.90) | 71.6 | (0.85) | 84.3 | (1.36) | 84.9 | (1.40) | 69.3 | (4.78) | 53.0 | (3.54) | 72.2 | (1.66) | |
| Physics (≥1.0) | 21.2 | (0.84) | 28.8 | (1.15) | 31.6 | (0.90) | 37.3 | (0.76) | 39.9 | (0.80) | 34.7 | (0.88) | 37.4 | (1.09) | 29.1 | (1.27) | 37.7 | (1.12) | 56.6 | (1.99) | 57.9 | (2.06) | 27.0 | (4.12) | 20.4 | (2.28) | 37.3 | (1.86) | |
| Earth/environmental science (≥1.0)5 | 26.8 | (2.48) | 25.5 | (2.07) | 34.8 | (1.41) | 42.1 | (0.73) | 44.0 | (0.73) | 40.2 | (0.80) | 40.0 | (0.96) | 51.4 | (1.39) | 42.8 | (1.02) | 35.7 | (1.54) | 35.4 | (1.59) | 42.9 | (5.43) | 39.9 | (3.19) | 44.1 | (1.64) | |
| Integrated/unified/survey science (≥1.0)6 | 51.5 | (2.57) | 55.6 | (2.48) | 51.7 | (1.73) | 42.4 | (1.05) | 43.2 | (1.12) | 41.5 | (1.06) | 44.6 | (1.60) | 50.1 | (1.14) | 37.1 | (1.02) | 29.0 | (1.69) | 28.6 | (1.73) | 37.4 | (4.57) | 57.9 | (3.74) | 37.2 | (1.91) | |
| Biology and chemistry (≥2.0)7 | 47.4 | (1.23) | 58.6 | (1.50) | 68.2 | (0.76) | 71.8 | (0.54) | 68.6 | (0.61) | 75.0 | (0.59) | 73.5 | (0.80) | 66.3 | (0.86) | 69.7 | (0.92) | 82.1 | (1.33) | 82.8 | (1.38) | 67.3 | (4.80) | 51.2 | (3.41) | 70.2 | (1.78) | |
| Biology, chemistry, and physics (≥3.0)7 | 18.6 | (0.71) | 23.2 | (1.10) | 27.1 | (0.87) | 32.4 | (0.71) | 33.9 | (0.73) | 30.9 | (0.82) | 32.6 | (1.06) | 24.5 | (1.13) | 32.4 | (1.11) | 51.0 | (2.03) | 52.2 | (2.11) | 22.5 | (4.17) | 14.9 | (2.10) | 32.6 | (1.81) | |
| †Not applicable. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #Rounds to zero. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Includes all graduates in the sample, even if they had missing responses for sex and/or race/ethnicity. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 For each course category, percentages include only students who earned at least the number of credits shown in parentheses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 Excludes pre-algebra. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 Includes courses where trigonometry or geometry has been combined with algebra II. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Includes astronomy, geology, and marine science courses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 Includes general life science and physical science courses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Percentages include only students who earned at least one Carnegie unit in each of the indicated courses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NOTE: For a high school graduate to be included in the analyses, their transcript had to meet five requirements: (1) the graduate received either a standard or honors diploma, (2) the transcript had three or more years of delineated courses, (3) at least one course on the transcript was taken during the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and High School Transcript Study (HSTS) assessment year, (4) the transcript contained 16 or more Carnegie credits, and (5) the transcript contained at least 1 Carnegie credit in English courses. The Carnegie unit is a standard of measurement that represents one credit for the completion of a 1-year course (0.5 = one semester; 1.0 = one academic year). Data differ slightly from figures appearing in other National Center for Education Statistics reports because of differences in taxonomies and case exclusion criteria. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Some data have been revised from previously published figures. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1990, 2000, 2009, and 2019 High School Transcript Study (HSTS). (This table was prepared April 2022.) |
