2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report

Table 36-M.Percentage of high school graduates who earned minimum course credits in science, by selected school and student demographic characteristics: Selected years, 1982–2000 (1.0 credit in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics)

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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 credit in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics	25.0	1.10	25.5	1.33	21.5	0.83	18.8	0.70	17.2	0.86	10.7	0.49
Student gender
Male	26.3	1.23	27.4	2.02	23.2	0.87	21.8	0.83	20.7	1.13	13.6	0.83
Female	23.9	1.14	23.8	1.29	19.8	0.93	16.1	0.74	13.8	0.87	8.0	0.40
Student race/ethnicity¹
White	25.7	1.20	27.2	1.50	22.9	1.05	20.6	0.81	18.3	0.90	12.4	0.61
Black	18.8	2.21	15.5	1.77	13.3	1.20	12.0	1.22	9.5	1.40	4.9	0.72
Hispanic	17.5	2.21	15.2	1.98	13.4	1.20	10.1	1.21	7.9	0.83	3.9	0.48
Asian/Pacific Islander	46.8	2.71	40.6	2.85	38.1	4.10	33.7	2.63	40.9	4.01	28.5	3.92
American Indian	11.9	3.30	14.9	4.04	8.7	2.82	10.6	3.12	5.9	2.07	4.6	1.84
Student program
Academic	30.3	1.20	31.0	1.67	28.4	1.06	26.9	0.92	28.1	1.31	23.2	1.03
Vocational	—	—	0.2	0.15	—	—	0.3	0.06	#	†	0.2	0.09
Both	16.6	1.48	18.1	1.91	9.7	0.78	8.8	0.85	10.3	1.09	7.5	1.02
Neither	0.6	0.23	0.4	0.16	0.8	0.35	1.2	0.64	0.1	0.06	0.5	0.16
Community type²
Urban	25.0	2.44	28.6	3.14	†	†	†	†	†	†	10.3	1.04
Suburban	28.4	1.58	26.8	2.00	†	†	†	†	†	†	11.9	0.84
Rural	18.2	1.31	20.9	1.17	†	†	†	†	†	†	9.1	0.71
Big city	†	†	†	†	23.2	2.46	20.3	1.90	16.0	2.04	†	†
Urban fringe	†	†	†	†	28.1	2.42	20.8	1.28	19.2	1.34	†	†
Medium city	†	†	†	†	22.0	1.81	19.1	2.26	15.6	1.46	†	†
Small place	†	†	†	†	16.5	0.87	17.3	0.95	16.8	1.71	†	†
School type
Public	23.5	1.10	23.6	0.99	20.8	0.80	17.9	0.71	16.3	0.91	9.9	0.49
Nonpublic	41.5	7.38	45.9	9.78	29.9	2.87	28.4	2.05	25.8	2.91	17.7	1.59
Region of the country³
Northeast	32.2	2.52	33.0	3.24	33.2	2.62	25.7	1.17	28.1	1.96	19.3	0.97
South	26.1	1.92	26.9	3.33	18.2	1.12	15.6	1.30	13.5	1.55	6.7	0.67
Midwest	22.8	1.28	23.7	1.57	21.3	1.66	18.8	1.55	14.2	1.74	10.5	0.84
West	19.7	2.00	19.3	1.98	18.6	1.94	16.9	1.47	14.2	1.87	6.8	1.16

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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.

# Rounds to zero.

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)