2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report

Table 33-H.Percentage of high school graduates who earned minimum course credits in English, by selected school and student demographic characteristics: Selected years, 1982–2000 (4.0 credits in Survey English)

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Characteristic	Percentage of graduates earning indicated minimum credits
	2000		1998		1994		1990		1987		1982
	Percent	s.e.	Percent	s.e.	Percent	s.e.	Percent	s.e.	Percent	s.e.	Percent	s.e.
4.0 credits in Survey English⁴	50.5	2.20	43.5	2.85	55.4	2.32	52.0	2.69	49.1	2.72	33.9	1.39
Student gender
Male	50.3	2.16	43.8	2.86	53.7	2.44	51.6	2.70	48.0	3.09	32.9	1.54
Female	50.5	2.35	43.9	2.97	57.0	2.35	52.3	2.79	50.4	2.57	34.7	1.52
Student race/ethnicity¹
White	49.3	2.80	42.6	2.96	55.8	2.94	52.4	3.13	50.6	3.29	32.7	1.53
Black	58.6	3.16	54.0	6.68	59.6	4.16	56.3	4.23	53.1	3.02	42.3	2.37
Hispanic	52.8	2.90	45.9	3.69	55.1	3.65	43.7	4.10	35.6	3.37	36.2	1.89
Asian/Pacific Islander	40.3	4.13	48.1	8.52	55.6	5.34	50.3	7.29	46.3	6.12	25.5	3.30
American Indian	54.5	7.75	50.2	5.38	43.1	7.00	56.3	7.81	50.4	2.88	20.9	5.09
Student program
Academic	51.0	2.47	43.3	2.91	57.7	2.49	57.8	2.75	55.3	3.23	41.2	1.70
Vocational	27.7	4.58	20.3	3.06	35.2	3.66	31.0	3.01	36.5	3.42	28.1	1.93
Both	61.2	2.67	57.3	4.41	62.6	2.91	60.2	2.41	59.5	4.04	48.3	3.53
Neither	14.0	2.54	15.6	2.41	24.7	3.56	20.8	3.72	28.1	2.96	21.6	1.70
Community type²
Urban	46.3	3.99	48.7	4.32	†	†	†	†	†	†	39.1	2.97
Suburban	53.5	3.43	40.8	4.40	†	†	†	†	†	†	29.9	1.55
Rural	48.6	5.71	41.6	5.25	†	†	†	†	†	†	36.9	2.71
Big city	†	†	†	†	55.0	5.84	49.5	7.45	42.0	4.25	†	†
Urban fringe	†	†	†	†	41.7	4.72	46.1	6.05	46.5	4.14	†	†
Medium city	†	†	†	†	50.1	5.69	47.8	5.71	49.8	7.25	†	†
Small place	†	†	†	†	65.7	4.80	57.0	4.33	53.2	4.49	†	†
School type
Public	50.5	2.22	42.8	3.02	56.0	2.52	51.2	3.02	47.7	2.83	33.0	1.62
Nonpublic	49.8	6.56	51.2	11.77	48.3	9.09	60.2	5.09	62.9	10.00	40.7	4.07
Region of the country³
Northeast	49.7	4.72	43.9	6.03	46.8	5.45	61.2	3.87	53.1	10.02	46.3	3.02
South	70.9	3.51	60.4	5.83	74.0	2.88	75.8	2.77	72.1	1.65	54.3	2.55
Midwest	32.8	5.38	24.7	5.11	32.3	6.16	23.0	6.90	29.6	3.80	13.2	2.04
West	37.6	4.04	39.6	4.49	58.0	3.61	41.0	6.08	35.1	7.26	15.2	1.67

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† Not applicable. In terms of community type, the community type definitions used in 1987, 1990, and 1994 differed from the community type definitions used in 1998 and 2000.

¹ American Indian includes Alaska Native, Black includes African American, Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian, and Hispanic includes Latino. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified.

² Although having similar names, the definitions for the 1982 high school graduates' community type subgroups are not compatible with the definitions for the 1998 and 2000 high school graduates' community type subgroups.

³ "Region of the country" refers to the Census-defined regions. For more information about Census-defined regions, see the U.S. Census Bureau online publication "Census Regions and Divisions of the United States" (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf [1.1M PDF]).

⁴ Survey English refers to general English courses that cover a variety of reading and writing skills, including language, grammar, composition, and literature.

NOTE: Credit definitions listed in the row header indicate the minimum number of credits earned. For example, "1.0 credit in … course" represents "1.0 credit or more earned in … course."

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), Selected years 1987–2000; High School and Beyond (HS&B), 1982.

Last updated 22 May 2007 (MH)