2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report

Table 35-I.Percentage of high school graduates who earned minimum course credits in mathematics, by selected school and student demographic characteristics: Selected years, 1982–2000 (1.0 credit in Analysis/Precalculus)

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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.
1.0 credits in Analysis/Precalculus	23.3	1.38	19.7	1.51	13.3	0.84	10.2	0.85	8.5	0.84	4.3	0.36
Student gender
Male	22.0	1.28	19.6	1.97	13.0	0.84	10.8	1.03	9.2	1.06	4.5	0.43
Female	24.6	1.68	19.5	1.58	13.7	0.96	9.7	0.82	7.9	0.84	4.1	0.44
Student race/ethnicity¹
White	24.9	1.63	20.6	1.82	14.3	1.10	11.6	0.93	9.1	0.97	5.1	0.48
Black	13.5	1.70	11.7	1.83	6.3	0.93	4.0	0.71	4.2	1.22	1.5	0.39
Hispanic	16.1	2.30	12.4	1.97	9.3	1.10	4.4	0.67	2.5	0.45	1.8	0.31
Asian/Pacific Islander	40.1	4.83	30.2	7.43	25.9	4.60	17.6	5.01	17.1	4.11	9.1	2.18
American Indian	10.1	2.63	13.8	4.35	5.4	2.52	4.2	1.74	3.8	0.92	0.6	0.64
Student program
Academic	28.3	1.66	24.5	1.87	17.4	1.12	14.7	1.22	13.5	1.33	8.8	0.81
Vocational	0.4	0.29	1.0	0.45	—	—	0.1	0.06	0.1	0.07	0.2	0.09
Both	15.0	1.42	11.2	2.00	6.9	0.79	4.4	0.81	5.5	1.26	3.1	0.53
Neither	2.9	0.60	1.3	0.67	1.0	0.54	0.7	0.40	1.2	0.81	1.0	0.30
Community type²
Urban	25.4	2.24	26.7	2.87	†	†	†	†	†	†	3.1	0.61
Suburban	26.7	2.19	20.2	2.05	†	†	†	†	†	†	5.5	0.61
Rural	14.6	2.33	12.0	2.63	†	†	†	†	†	†	3.1	0.56
Big city	†	†	†	†	16.4	2.24	8.1	1.90	10.7	2.79	†	†
Urban fringe	†	†	†	†	16.5	2.16	12.3	1.66	7.0	0.89	†	†
Medium city	†	†	†	†	12.6	1.41	11.6	2.66	12.3	2.46	†	†
Small place	†	†	†	†	10.4	1.47	9.4	1.38	7.4	1.51	†	†
School type
Public	20.7	1.39	17.1	1.42	12.5	0.85	9.1	1.00	7.4	0.84	3.6	0.33
Nonpublic	51.8	5.71	45.9	7.37	23.0	3.49	21.7	3.30	19.4	4.46	10.6	1.93
Region of the country³
Northeast	26.1	2.75	23.8	4.79	17.0	2.52	17.8	2.18	12.0	2.35	6.9	1.02
South	26.0	2.43	20.5	2.80	10.6	0.80	6.0	0.85	5.5	1.23	2.3	0.69
Midwest	17.6	2.42	14.6	2.07	14.0	1.85	9.6	1.91	9.7	1.55	4.8	0.61
West	23.6	2.51	20.8	2.11	15.2	2.11	9.9	2.02	7.4	1.88	3.6	0.72

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— Not available.

† 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]).

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)