2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report

Table 39-B.Percentage of high school graduates who earned minimum course credits in fine arts courses, by selected school and student demographic characteristics: Selected years, 1982–2000 (0.5 credits in Fine Arts & Crafts)

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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.
0.5 credits in Fine Arts & Crafts	58.4	1.41	52.7	1.27	49.2	1.35	48.2	1.52	40.8	1.81	44.0	0.98
Student gender
Male	58.0	1.73	53.2	1.68	52.2	1.71	51.4	1.75	43.8	2.23	44.1	1.26
Female	58.8	1.38	52.0	1.17	46.3	1.34	45.3	1.56	38.0	1.62	43.9	0.92
Student race/ethnicity¹
White	57.9	1.67	51.1	1.62	49.2	1.54	47.9	1.74	38.7	2.53	43.1	1.03
Black	54.8	2.10	46.2	2.59	38.7	2.32	42.6	2.71	38.3	2.74	44.0	2.52
Hispanic	61.1	2.62	63.3	2.66	53.7	2.36	58.5	3.04	52.3	2.04	47.9	2.14
Asian/Pacific Islander	63.1	2.47	55.7	4.57	59.6	4.84	51.3	4.57	45.3	3.46	49.9	3.46
American Indian	61.4	4.17	65.9	3.63	67.0	8.74	48.0	5.34	61.3	2.42	61.4	7.58
Student program
Academic	60.0	1.38	53.8	1.45	50.7	1.29	47.8	1.60	40.3	1.80	40.7	1.43
Vocational	60.3	2.98	49.6	2.85	44.8	2.85	48.0	3.27	37.7	2.74	42.7	1.18
Both	50.3	2.20	45.2	1.67	41.7	2.22	43.0	2.35	34.9	2.30	34.2	2.45
Neither	67.7	3.16	67.9	2.44	61.9	2.51	60.3	2.74	53.6	2.14	54.3	1.75
Community type²
Urban	60.7	2.60	56.0	2.65	†	†	†	†	†	†	49.4	2.29
Suburban	58.3	1.96	55.6	2.41	†	†	†	†	†	†	44.4	1.32
Rural	56.2	2.95	45.8	2.59	†	†	†	†	†	†	40.0	1.85
Big city	†	†	†	†	55.9	2.43	54.8	4.27	51.9	2.48	†	†
Urban fringe	†	†	†	†	57.1	1.90	51.0	2.55	44.2	2.28	†	†
Medium city	†	†	†	†	43.2	2.90	46.2	3.73	39.0	2.27	†	†
Small place	†	†	†	†	43.7	2.57	45.3	2.37	35.3	3.66	†	†
School type
Public	57.1	1.52	51.8	1.27	48.3	1.41	47.7	1.61	39.8	1.72	43.2	0.93
Nonpublic	72.2	3.16	61.5	7.06	59.4	5.52	53.3	3.13	51.0	7.48	50.1	3.86
Region of the country³
Northeast	60.6	4.05	57.4	2.29	58.0	3.84	55.5	2.97	41.4	4.21	41.7	1.62
South	53.4	2.22	45.2	2.81	40.5	2.41	38.8	3.09	31.9	3.35	37.5	2.50
Midwest	62.1	2.57	48.9	2.60	47.0	2.00	46.5	2.54	43.8	3.27	46.5	1.58
West	60.3	2.48	64.4	1.30	64.4	2.10	58.5	2.67	50.7	2.08	54.6	2.43

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† Not applicable. The community type definitions used in 1987, 1990, and 1994 differed from the 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 9 March 2007 (HM)