2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report

Table 45-E.Mean NAEP mathematics scores of high school graduates, by completion status of minimum core course curriculum credits and selected school and student demographic characteristics: 2000 (4 Eng. + 3 S.S. + 2 Math + 2 Sci.)

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Characteristic	NAEP mathematics scores of graduates who:
	Earned minimum core curriculum credits			Did not earn minimum core curriculum credits
	Mean	s.e.	N	Mean	s.e.	N
4 Eng. + 3 S.S. + 2 Math + 2 Sci.	304	1.1	4,908	293	2.3	1,123
Student gender
Male	306	1.6	2,214	293	2.6	595
Female	302	1.1	2,674	294	2.7	527
Student race/ethnicity¹
White	310	1.2	2,951	298	2.5	619
Black	275	2.3	840	273	4.8	163
Hispanic	287	2.4	762	275	3.3	233
Asian/Pacific Islander	329	4.2	230	308	3.8	82
American Indian	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
Other	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
Student program
Academic	307	1.1	3,699	303	2.7	597
Vocational	‡	‡	‡	273	5.3	114
Both	294	2.2	1,147	289	3.8	174
Neither	‡	‡	‡	280	3.0	238
Community type
Urban	300	2.2	1,394	292	3.8	342
Suburban	306	1.9	2,354	297	3.4	514
Rural	301	2.1	1,160	289	3.5	267
School type
Public	302	1.2	4,516	291	2.5	1,022
Nonpublic	317	3.4	392	319	5.0	101
Region of the country²
Northeast	306	3.2	700	295	6.3	219
South	298	1.8	2,606	288	4.3	277
Midwest	310	2.0	721	299	3.6	291
West	306	3.2	881	289	4.7	336

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‡ Reporting standards not met. Means and standard errors based on less than 30 observations are not reported. If necessary, so as not to disclose the number of observations in these cells, other cells were not reported.

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 "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: Subject field abbreviations used in this table include Eng. = English, S.S. = Social Studies, Math = Mathematics, Sci. = Science, Comp. = Computer Science, and F.L. = Foreign Languages.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), 2000.

Last updated 23 May 2007 (MH)