Table O5. Percentage of 2009 9th-graders who graduated on-time and attended postsecondary education in the fall of 2013 who took remedial courses, by persistence in postsecondary education 1 year later, 2014 (HSLS:09)

  Persistence as of September 2014  
Students Characteristics Not enrolled   Enrolled at the
undergraduate level
  Enrolled level unknown  
Total 22.8   73.0   4.2  
             
Postsecondary remedial math taken            
No 20.4   75.7   3.9  
Yes 27.8   67.5   4.7 !
             
! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error represents more than 30 percent of the estimate.
‡ Reporting standards are not met.
NOTE: Remedial courses taken during high school were not included, only those after high school graduation.
NOTE: PETS transcript for first attendance after high schoolwas required for this analysis sample of after graduation fall postsecondary attendance. Those that had a transfer transcript indicating a positive event of remedial coursetaking were an exception to this rule.
NOTE: Since figures were computed based on high school type, only those students that attended the same school type in last year and in freshman year were included.
NOTE: W5PSTRANS weight was used.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), "PETS and SR Transcript Data."