Forum on Child and Family StatisticsED3.A High school academic coursetaking: Percentage of public high school students enrolled in selected secondary mathematics courses by race and Hispanic origin and gender, 2017–18
| Characteristic | Algebra I | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 9–10 | Grades 11–12a | Geometry | Algebra II | Advanced mathematicsb | Calculus | Advanced Placement Mathematics | |
| Total | 36.9 | 2.9 | 22.6 | 19.9 | 15.8 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
| Male | 37.8 | 3.3 | 22.5 | 19.3 | 14.9 | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| Female | 36.0 | 2.5 | 22.8 | 20.6 | 16.7 | 4.8 | 4.7 |
| Race and Hispanic origin | |||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 33.7 | 2.2 | 21.9 | 20.4 | 16.9 | 5.5 | 5.2 |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 41.5 | 3.6 | 23.5 | 19.3 | 14.0 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| Hispanic | 42.5 | 4.1 | 24.1 | 19.3 | 13.3 | 3.0 | 2.9 |
| Asian, non-Hispanic | 25.0 | 1.8 | 20.5 | 21.0 | 24.5 | 12.9 | 14.3 |
| Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic | 41.1 | 3.7 | 24.7 | 18.9 | 13.2 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
| American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic | 42.4 | 5.7 | 22.6 | 18.4 | 9.3 | 2.0 | 1.6 |
| Two or more races, non-Hispanic | 35.5 | 2.8 | 22.5 | 19.3 | 15.1 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| Gender | |||||||
| Male | |||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 34.5 | 2.5 | 21.7 | 19.8 | 16.1 | 5.5 | 5.1 |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 42.5 | 4.1 | 23.4 | 18.6 | 12.8 | 1.8 | 1.6 |
| Hispanic | 43.3 | 4.6 | 24.0 | 18.6 | 12.4 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
| Asian, non-Hispanic | 26.2 | 2.0 | 20.3 | 20.7 | 23.8 | 12.8 | 14.2 |
| Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic | 42.6 | 4.2 | 24.6 | 18.2 | 11.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 |
| American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic | 43.0 | 6.0 | 22.1 | 17.6 | 8.3 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Two or more races, non-Hispanic | 36.3 | 3.1 | 22.2 | 18.7 | 14.3 | 4.5 | 4.4 |
| Female | |||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 32.9 | 1.9 | 22.1 | 21.0 | 17.8 | 5.5 | 5.2 |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 40.5 | 3.1 | 23.6 | 20.0 | 15.2 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
| Hispanic | 41.6 | 3.6 | 24.2 | 20.1 | 14.2 | 3.2 | 3.1 |
| Asian, non-Hispanic | 23.7 | 1.5 | 20.6 | 21.2 | 25.3 | 13.1 | 14.4 |
| Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic | 39.4 | 3.1 | 24.9 | 19.7 | 14.6 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
| American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic | 41.8 | 5.4 | 23.1 | 19.1 | 10.4 | 2.2 | 1.7 |
| Two or more races, non-Hispanic | 34.6 | 2.5 | 22.7 | 19.9 | 16.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 |
| a Denominator does not include ungraded students. | |||||||
| b Advanced mathematics courses cover the following topics: trigonometry, trigonometry/algebra, trigonometry/analytic geometry, trigonometry/math analysis, analytic geometry, math analysis, math analysis/analytic geometry, probability and statistics, and precalculus. | |||||||
| NOTE: Data reflect the percentage of students in Grades 9–12 or grade equivalents who were enrolled in each course during the 2017–18 school year, except for Algebra I, for which the data reflect the percentage of students in the grade spans listed in the column heading. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. | |||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Civil Rights Data Collection; and National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey. | |||||||
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