Appendix A
ADDITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CLASS OF 1988
Student Socioeconomic Status, Coolidge
High School, by Race/Ethnicity
(Sample: 10th-12th grade cohort)
| Low SES | Middle SES | High SES | ||
| All students | 14.5 | 68.1 | 17.4 | |
| By race | ||||
| White | 7.3 | 69.1 | 23.6 | |
| Black | 16.7 | 69.4 | 13.9 | |
| Asian | 24.4 | 67.8 | 7.8 | |
| Latino | 18.8 | 64.6 | 16.7 | |
NOTE: Sample excludes students with missing SES data; therefore, the distribution reported in the first row differs slightly from the SES distributions reported in Table 2.2. | ||||
Achievement Measures at All Schools, by Race/Ethnicity
(Sample: 10th-12th grade cohort)
| White | Black | Asian | Latino | ||||||||||
| Washington | |||||||||||||
| Mean percentile scores | |||||||||||||
| Math, grade 10 | 67.1* | (241) | -- | -- | 88.4* | (103) | 44.2* | (16) | |||||
| Reading, grade 10 | 63.6** | (246) | -- | -- | 56.0** | (103) | 49.1** | (18) | |||||
| SAT mean score, math | 498.6* | (109) | -- | -- | 601.1* | (94) | 516.7* | (3) | |||||
| SAT mean score, verbal | 444.7 | (109) | -- | -- | 412.3 | (94) | 463.3 | (3) | |||||
| Percentage who met state
university requirements | 38.7* | -- | -- | 80.0* | 11.8* | ||||||||
| Percentage of 12th graders
who graduated | 90.5* | -- | -- | 100.0* | 80.0* | ||||||||
| Sample size | 263 | 112 | 20 | ||||||||||
| Coolidge | |||||||||||||
| Mean percentile scores | |||||||||||||
| Math, grade 10 | 67.2* | (159) | 53.1* | (35) | 76.9* | (40) | 48.4* | (86) | |||||
| Reading, grade 10 | 61.6* | (160) | 53.1* | (34) | 61.8* | (40) | 39.7* | (88) | |||||
| SAT mean score, math | 475.9* | (91) | 410.0* | (25) | 527.5* | (40) | 419.3* | (28) | |||||
| SAT mean score, verbal | 444.6* | (91) | 385.2* | (25) | 427.3* | 366.4* | (28) | ||||||
| Percentage who met state
university requirements | 37.9* | 37.5* | 60.0* | 13.3* | |||||||||
| Percentage of 12th graders
who graduated | 94.5 | 90.2 | 96.0 | 89.5 | |||||||||
| Sample size | 181 | 41 | 50 | 105 | |||||||||
| McKinley | |||||||||||||
| Mean percentile scores | |||||||||||||
| Math, grade 10 | -- | -- | 43.9 | (237) | -- | -- | 45.8 | (73) | |||||
| Reading, grade 10 | -- | -- | 42.1* | (238) | -- | -- | 33.9* | (75) | |||||
| SAT mean score, math | -- | -- | 352.2 | (96) | -- | -- | 339.3 | (15) | |||||
| SAT mean score, verbal | -- | -- | 330.3 | (96) | 300.0 | (15) | |||||||
| Percentage who met state
university requirements | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||||||
| Percentage of 12th graders
who graduated | -- | -- | 90.5* | -- | -- | 73.8* | |||||||
| Sample size | 253 | 84 | |||||||||||
NOTE: When sample sizes are smaller than the full sample because of missing data, the sample sizes are shown in parentheses. *Differences are significant at the .01 level. **Differences are significant at the .05 level. | |||||||||||||
Achievement Measures at Two Schools, by Birthplace
(Sample: 10th-12th grade cohort)
| U.S.-Born | Foreign-Born | |||||
| Washington | ||||||
| Mean percentile scores | ||||||
| Math, grade 10 | 67.5* | (269) | 86.4* | (93) | ||
| Reading, grade 10 | 65.0* | (273) | 49.4* | (96) | ||
| SAT mean score, math | 507.4* | (125) | 602.3* | (83) | ||
| SAT mean score, verbal | 453.5 | (125) | 394.0 | (83) | ||
| Percentage who met state
university requirements | 38.9* | 71.6** | ||||
| Percentage of 12th graders
who graduated | 91.1** | 97.2** | ||||
| Sample size | 291 | 106 | ||||
| McKinley | ||||||
| Mean percentile scores | ||||||
| Math, grade 10 | 45.1 | (229) | 45.8 | (64) | ||
| Reading, grade 10 | 42.9* | (231) | 65 | (33) | ||
| SAT mean score, math | 354.0 | (94) | 346.1 | (18) | ||
| SAT mean score, verbal | 332.9 | (94) | 299.4 | (18) | ||
| Percentage who met state
university requirements | -- | -- | ||||
| Percentage of 12th graders
who graduated | 89.5** | 79.5** | ||||
| Sample size | 247 | 73 | ||||
NOTE: When sample sizes are smaller than the full sample because of missing data, the sample sizes are shown in parentheses. *Differences are significant at the .01 level. **Differences are significant at the .05 level. aExcludes one student at Washington and 30 students at McKinley with unknown birthplace. | ||||||
Achievement Measures for Asian Students,
Washington High School, by Birthplace
(Sample: 10th-12th grade cohort)
| U.S.-Born | Foreign-Born | ||||||
| Mean percentile scores | |||||||
| Math, grade 10 | 88.4 | (24) | 88.4 | (79) | |||
| Reading, grade 10 | 78.7* | (24) | 49.1* | (79) | |||
| SAT mean score, math | 564.4 | (18) | 609.7 | (76) | |||
| SAT mean score, verbal | 493.3* | (18) | 393.2* | (76) | |||
| Percentage who met state
university requirements | 88.9 | 78.7 | |||||
| Percentage of 12th graders
who graduated | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||||
| Sample size | 24 | 88 | |||||
NOTE: When sample sizes are smaller than the full sample because of missing data, the sample sizes are shown in parentheses. *Differences are significant at the .01 level. **Differences are significant at the .05 level. | |||||||