Appendix C
SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES ON VOCATIONAL PARTICIPATION
Percentage of Sudents Taking
Vocational Courses, by School
(Sample: 10th-12th grade cohort)
| Courses | Washington | Coolidge | McKinley | |
| None | 0.0 | 10.3 | 0.6 | |
| 1-2 | 23.4 | 24.7 | 8.6 | |
| 3-4 | 27.6 | 24.2 | 21.7 | |
| 5-6 | 24.9 | 21.1 | 22.3 | |
| 7-8 | 15.1 | 12.9 | 21.1 | |
| 9+ | 9.1 | 6.8 | 25.7 | |
NOTE: The differences in the distributions between schools are significant at the .01 level. | ||||
Percentage of Students Taking
Vocational Courses, by Credits
Taken and School
(Sample: 10th-12th grade cohort)
| Credits | Washington | Coolidge | McKinley | |
| None | 0.3 | 10.3 | 0.9 | |
| 1-10 | 22.4 | 26.1 | 9.4 | |
| 11-20 | 26.9 | 25.0 | 17.4 | |
| 21-30 | 19.9 | 19.0 | 18.9 | |
| 31-40 | 15.1 | 13.7 | 18.3 | |
| 41+ | 15.6 | 6.1 | 35.1 | |
NOTE: Distributions between schools are significantly different at the .01 level. | ||||
Fig. C.1--Distribution of Vocational Credits Taken, by School
Percentage of Students Taking Vocational Courses,
by Gender and School
(Sample: 10th-12th grade cohort)
| Washington | Coolidge | McKinley | |||||||
| Courses | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |||
| None | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.4 | 8.4 | 1.2 | 0.0 | |||
| 1-2 | 19.4 | 26.6 | 22.6 | 26.6 | 10.7 | 6.6 | |||
| 3-4 | 23.9 | 30.7 | 21.5 | 26.6 | 19.1 | 24.2 | |||
| 5-6 | 27.2 | 22.9 | 22.0 | 20.2 | 22.6 | 22.0 | |||
| 7-8 | 17.2 | 13.3 | 13.6 | 12.3 | 20.8 | 21.4 | |||
| 9+ | 12.2 | 6.4 | 7.9 | 5.9 | 25.6 | 25.8 | |||
Fig. C.2--Distribution of Vocational Credits Taken, by School
(Less 10 Required Credits for Each Washington Student)
Fig. C.3--Distribution of Occupational Credits Taken, by School
Percentage of Students Taking Vocational Courses,
by Race/Ethnicity and School
(Sample: 10th-12th grade cohort)
| Washington* | Coolidge | McKinley | ||||||||||
| Courses | Wte | Lat | Asn | Wte | Blk | Lat | Asn | Blk | Lat | |||
| None | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.5 | 12.2 | 4.8 | 12.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |||
| 1-2 | 16.9 | 20.0 | 39.3 | 27.2 | 31.7 | 11.4 | 38.0 | 9.2 | 7.1 | |||
| 3-4 | 26.3 | 30.0 | 30.4 | 19.0 | 22.0 | 29.5 | 34.0 | 22.2 | 20.2 | |||
| 5-6 | 24.4 | 30.0 | 25.0 | 21.7 | 19.5 | 25.7 | 10.0 | 22.6 | 21.4 | |||
| 7-8 | 19.2 | 20.2 | 4.5 | 14.1 | 7.3 | 16.1 | 6.0 | 22.2 | 17.9 | |||
| 9+ | 13.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 5.4 | 7.3 | 12.4 | 0.0 | 23.3 | 33.3 | |||
NOTE: Because of small sample sizes, black students were excluded from the Washington sample and Asian students from the McKinley sample for the computation of the test statistics. *Differences in the distributions within schools are significant at the .01 level. | ||||||||||||
Distribution of Achievement Scores,
by Math Enrollment and School
| Washington | Coolidge | McKinley | |||||||
| Other Math | College- Prep Math | Other Math | College- Prep Math | Other Math | College- Prep Math | ||||
| Math score - 8th grade | |||||||||
| 5th percentile | 18.2 | 70.2 | 12.6 | 61.3 | -- | -- | |||
| Mean | 57.8 | 90.0 | 57.1 | 87.0 | -- | -- | |||
| 95th percentile | 94.0 | 99.0 | 93.0 | 98.0 | -- | -- | |||
| Math score - 10th grade | |||||||||
| 5th percentile | 9.0 | 74.0 | 7.0 | 61.7 | 10.0 | 37.3 | |||
| Mean | 54.5 | 92.1 | 49.2 | 84.9 | 38.5 | 65.9 | |||
| 95th percentile | 91.0 | 99.0 | 85.0 | 99.0 | 71.0 | 92.5 | |||
| Reading score - 8th grade | |||||||||
| 5th percentile | 16.3 | 18.5 | 8.7 | 47.5 | -- | -- | |||
| Mean | 59.2 | 78.3 | 50.5 | 79.0 | -- | -- | |||
| 95th percentile | 97.0 | 99.0 | 91.0 | 99.0 | -- | -- | |||
| Reading score - 10th grade | |||||||||
| 5th percentile | 7.0 | 12.7 | 4.0 | 41.4 | 4.0 | 32.6 | |||
| Mean | 52.2 | 70.7 | 43.6 | 75.6 | 33.6 | 62.5 | |||
| 95th percentile | 93.1 | 99.0 | 85.0 | 99.0 | 73.0 | 92.0 | |||
NOTE: All within-school differences in mean achievement scores between students not taking and taking college-prep math are significant at the .01 level. | |||||||||
Distribution of Achievement Scores,
by English Enrollment and School
| Washington | Coolidge | McKinley | |||||||
| Other English | College- Prep English | Other English | College- Prep English | Other English | College- Prep English | ||||
| Math score - 8th grade | |||||||||
| 5th percentile | 14.4 | 39.0 | 11.9 | 46.9 | -- | -- | |||
| Mean | 60.7 | 79.1 | 57.1 | 79.6 | -- | -- | |||
| 95th percentile | 97.0 | 99.0 | 96.0 | 98.0 | -- | -- | |||
| Math score - 10th grade | |||||||||
| 5th percentile | 9.0 | 31.0 | 5.3 | 35.1 | 6.2 | 25.0 | |||
| Mean | 62.3 | 81.3 | 49.2 | 75.0 | 32.7 | 54.5 | |||
| 95th percentile | 99.0 | 99.0 | 89.0 | 99.0 | 69.4 | 89.0 | |||
| Reading score - 8th grade | |||||||||
| 5th percentile | 8.3 | 30.0 | 6.9 | 32.0 | -- | -- | |||
| Mean | 59.4 | 73.0 | 49.8 | 72.7 | -- | -- | |||
| 95th percentile | 97.0 | 99.0 | 95.1 | 99.0 | -- | -- | |||
| Reading score - 10th grade | |||||||||
| 5th percentile | 5.0 | 27.0 | 3.3 | 20.0 | 4.0 | 15.0 | |||
| Mean | 50.5 | 70.4 | 42.5 | 67.9 | 25.0 | 52.7 | |||
| 95th percentile | 94.2 | 99.0 | 88.7 | 98.0 | 58.3 | 88.0 | |||
NOTE: All within-school differences in mean achievement scores between students not taking and taking college-prep English are significant at the .01 level. | |||||||||
Distribution of Achievement Scores for Vocational Non-Concentrators
and Concentrators, by School
| Number of Vocational Courses | |||||||||||||
| Washington | Coolidge | McKinley | |||||||||||
| Without Adj. | With Adj. | ||||||||||||
| Non-Con. | Con. | <5 | >5 | <5 | >5 | <5 | >5 | ||||||
| Math score - 8th grade | |||||||||||||
| 5th percentile | 29.7 | 13.3 | 27.6 | 10.5 | 19.0 | 11.6 | -- | -- | |||||
| Mean | 78.5 | 56.6 | 75.7 | 48.4 | 73.3 | 55.5 | -- | -- | |||||
| 95th percentile | 99.0 | 96.3 | 99.0 | 93.1 | 97.0 | 94.0 | -- | -- | |||||
| Math score - 10th grade | |||||||||||||
| 5th percentile | 27.8 | 5.6 | 21.0 | 2.5 | 19.4 | 5.0 | 16.2 | 7.3 | |||||
| Mean | 79.1 | 57.5 | 76.3 | 48.7 | 68.9 | 44.6 | 51.4 | 39.7 | |||||
| 95th percentile | 99.0 | 95.6 | 99.0 | 93.3 | 99.0 | 93.0 | 89.0 | 71.0 | |||||
| Reading score - 8th grade | |||||||||||||
| 5th percentile | 20.7 | 13.6 | 18.1 | 18.3 | 13.0 | 4.8 | -- | -- | |||||
| Mean | 72.2 | 56.9 | 70.4 | 51.1 | 66.6 | 46.9 | -- | -- | |||||
| 95th percentile | 99.0 | 93.6 | 99.0 | 87.8 | 98.0 | 91.0 | -- | -- | |||||
| Reading score - 10th grade | |||||||||||||
| 5th percentile | 8.0 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 6.1 | 8.7 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 5.3 | |||||
| Mean | 64.8 | 52.7 | 63.0 | 49.0 | 61.1 | 39.3 | 47.1 | 34.8 | |||||
| 95th percentile | 99.0 | 92.9 | 99.0 | 87.2 | 98.0 | 78.8 | 91.0 | 73.0 | |||||
NOTE: All within-school differences in mean achievement scores between students not taking and taking six or more vocational courses are significant at the .01 level. | |||||||||||||