ED3.B High school academic coursetaking: Percentage of high school graduates who took selected science courses in high school, selected years 1982

ED3.B High school academic coursetaking: Percentage of high school graduates who took selected science courses in high school, selected years 1982–2009

Course (Carnegie units)	1982	1990	1994	1998	2000	2005	2009
							Total	Gender		Race and Hispanic origin^a
							Total	Male	Female	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native
Any science (1.0)	96.4	99.3	99.5	99.5	99.5	99.6	99.9	99.8	99.9	99.9	99.9	99.8	100.0	100.0
Biology (1.0)	77.4	90.9	93.2	92.7	91.2	92.3	95.6	94.9	96.2	95.6	96.3	94.8	95.8	94.5
Chemistry (1.0)	32.1	48.9	55.8	60.4	62.0	66.2	70.4	67.4	73.4	71.5	65.3	65.7	84.8	44.5
Physics (1.0)	15.0	21.5	24.5	28.8	31.4	32.7	36.1	39.2	33.0	37.6	26.9	28.6	61.1	19.8
Engineering (1.0)	1.2	4.2	4.5	6.7	3.9	4.3	8.2	9.0	7.4	8.2	10.1	7.1	6.4	9.0
Astronomy (0.5)	1.2	1.2	1.7	1.9	2.8	2.8	3.3	3.9	2.7	4.0	1.8	2.0	1.9	5.3
Geology/earth science (0.5)	13.6	24.7	22.9	20.7	17.4	23.1	27.7	28.9	26.5	28.2	30.1	27.1	19.1	26.0
Biology and chemistry (2.0)	29.3	47.5	53.7	59.0	59.4	64.3	68.3	65.0	71.4	68.9	64.3	64.2	82.7	43.9
Biology, chemistry, and physics (3.0)	11.2	18.8	21.4	25.4	25.1	27.3	30.1	31.9	28.3	31.4	21.9	22.7	54.4	13.6
^a For data before 2003, the 1977 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Standards for Data on Race and Ethnicity were used to classify persons into one of the following four racial groups: White, Black, American Indian or Alaskan Native, or Asian or Pacific Islander. The revised 1997 OMB standards were used for data for 2003 and later years. Persons could select one or more of five racial groups: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, or Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. Included in the 2009 total but not shown separately are Included in the total, but not shown separately are respondents reporting "Two or more races." Beginning in 2003, those in a given racial category represent those reporting only that race. Data on race and Hispanic origin are collected separately. Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race.
NOTE: For a transcript to be included in the analysis, it had to meet three requirements:(1) the student graduated with either a standard or honors diploma, (2) the student’s transcript contained 16 or more Carnegie units, and (3) the student’s transcript contained more than 0 Carnegie units in English courses. For each course category, percentages include only students who earned at least the number of credits shown in parentheses (e.g., 0.5 = one semester; 1.0 = one academic year) in each course while in high school and do not count those students who took these courses prior to entering high school.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School and Beyond Study of 1980 Sophomores (HS&B-So:80/82), "High School Transcript Study"; and National Assessment of Educational Progress High School Transcript Study (1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2005, and 2009).