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| Table 225.50. | Percentage of public and private high school graduates who earned minimum credits in selected combinations of academic courses, by sex and race/ethnicity: Selected years, 1990 through 2019 |
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| Year of graduation and course combination taken1 | All students2 | Sex | Race/ethnicity3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||
| 1990 graduates | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 Wld Lang4 |
30.8 | (1.39) | 29.8 | (1.51) | 31.9 | (1.47) | 32.5 | (1.58) | 23.6 | (2.38) | 27.0 | (2.82) | 44.2 | (3.27) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | 14.2 | ! | (5.53) | 29.1 | (6.76) |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 40.7 | (1.72) | 41.3 | (1.94) | 40.1 | (1.72) | 41.3 | (1.83) | 42.5 | (3.89) | 32.6 | (3.01) | 51.2 | (3.09) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | 22.3 | (6.60) | 41.2 | (6.16) | |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 67.1 | (2.19) | 66.3 | (2.27) | 67.8 | (2.20) | 65.6 | (2.57) | 73.3 | (3.12) | 70.6 | (3.71) | 75.6 | (3.03) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | 49.8 | (8.67) | 73.5 | (7.56) | |
2000 graduates |
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| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 Wld Lang4 |
48.8 | (1.59) | 42.3 | (1.74) | 54.6 | (1.69) | 49.2 | (1.70) | 48.3 | (2.66) | 42.6 | (5.81) | 59.3 | (3.51) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | 30.1 | (5.77) | 52.7 | (11.01) | |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 60.9 | (1.78) | 56.4 | (1.82) | 65.0 | (1.87) | 60.5 | (1.99) | 68.3 | (2.65) | 52.1 | (6.15) | 67.7 | (3.42) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | 53.6 | (7.24) | 59.5 | (11.18) | |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 78.1 | (1.62) | 74.6 | (1.82) | 81.2 | (1.53) | 76.8 | (1.99) | 81.9 | (2.33) | 81.1 | (2.65) | 82.4 | (3.08) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | 76.4 | (6.16) | 64.6 | (13.10) | |
2009 graduates |
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| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 Wld Lang4 |
63.1 | (0.87) | 58.6 | (1.07) | 67.5 | (0.86) | 63.2 | (0.97) | 60.9 | (1.74) | 60.6 | (1.66) | 74.9 | (2.24) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | 44.6 | (3.96) | 68.0 | (3.17) | |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 76.7 | (0.89) | 74.8 | (1.03) | 78.6 | (0.83) | 76.2 | (1.13) | 83.2 | (0.80) | 71.2 | (1.56) | 81.1 | (2.02) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | 69.9 | (4.47) | 78.5 | (2.90) | |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 87.0 | (0.76) | 85.4 | (0.84) | 88.7 | (0.77) | 85.0 | (0.97) | 91.1 | (0.64) | 90.2 | (0.76) | 90.6 | (1.56) | --- | (†) | --- | (†) | 84.6 | (3.06) | 87.5 | (1.82) | |
2019 graduates |
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| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math, and 2 Wld Lang4 |
65.6 | (0.57) | 61.5 | (0.66) | 69.9 | (0.61) | 66.4 | (0.91) | 62.1 | (1.19) | 65.1 | (0.78) | 72.8 | (1.72) | 73.5 | (1.80) | 55.9 | (4.86) | 42.4 | (2.68) | 66.3 | (1.73) | |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 3 Sci, 3 Math | 83.7 | (0.50) | 82.1 | (0.60) | 85.3 | (0.51) | 84.6 | (0.74) | 87.6 | (0.56) | 80.1 | (0.76) | 84.6 | (1.69) | 85.1 | (1.77) | 73.4 | (4.85) | 77.5 | (2.81) | 82.3 | (1.45) | |
| 4 Eng, 3 SS, 2 Sci, 2 Math | 91.0 | (0.50) | 90.2 | (0.61) | 91.8 | (0.46) | 90.0 | (0.74) | 93.0 | (0.39) | 92.3 | (0.52) | 90.1 | (1.69) | 90.2 | (1.74) | 88.0 | (4.02) | 89.1 | (1.97) | 89.5 | (1.25) | |
| ---Not available. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| †Not applicable. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| !Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Eng = English; SS = social studies; Sci = science; and Wld Lang = world language. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 Includes all graduates in the analytic sample, even if they had missing responses for sex and/or race/ethnicity. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 Race/ethnicity categories used for 1990, 2000, and 2009 are the pre-2011 categories. The race/ethnicity categories used prior to 2011 were White, Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Two or more races. Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, and Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian. Additional information was collected by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) beginning in 2011 so that results could be reported separately for Asian students and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 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: 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 four years of delineated courses, (3) at least one course on the transcript was taken during the 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. 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.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
