Table 4. Percent of high schools offering Advanced Placement (AP) courses, by distribution of students at the school enrolled in AP courses and school urbanicity: 2009
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Total | 27.72 | |
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15.38 |
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24.04 |
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14.04 |
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10.52 |
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8.30 |
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Urbanicity of School
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City |
18.76 |
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9.23 |
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23.00 |
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23.13 |
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16.98 |
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8.89 |
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Suburb |
14.90 |
! |
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12.93 |
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27.61 |
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19.21 |
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18.79 |
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6.56 |
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Town |
29.61 |
! |
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18.24 |
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26.73 |
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13.96 |
! |
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8.06 |
! |
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3.40 |
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Rural | 39.06 | ! |
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18.86 |
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21.41 |
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6.26 |
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3.37 |
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11.04 |
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! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error represents more than 30 percent of the estimate. |
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), “Base Year School File, 2009.” |