Table 2:
Athletic Opportunities Provided to Girls and Boys Across Public High Schools.1
| All Schools (n = 16910; unique schools) | 2009–10 | 2011–12 | 2013–14 | 2015–16 | |||
| n = 9769 | n = 14111 | n = 13090 | n = 14122 | ||||
| % (SE) | % (SE) | % (SE) | % (SE) | ||||
| School Indicated not Having Interscholastic Sports2 | 22.0% (.004) | 21.2% (.003) | 22.6% (.003) | 23.5% (.004) | |||
| Schools with Interscholastic Sports (n = 13005; unique schools) | 2009–10 | 2011–12 | 2013–14 | 2015–16 | |||
| n = 7615 | n = 11105 | n = 10051 | n = 10804 | ||||
| Mean (SE) | Mean (SE) | Mean (SE) | Mean (SE) | ||||
| Athletic Opportunities for Girls 3 | |||||||
| Number of sports (girls) | 7.82 (.043) | 7.50 (.036) | 7.39 (.040) | 7.48 (.038) | |||
| Number of teams (girls) | 13.8 (.088) | 12.7 (.070) | 12.2 (.077) | 12.3 (.074) | |||
| Participation Rate (girls) | .400 (.002) | .461 (.002) | .420 (.002) | .434 (.002) | |||
| Athletic Opportunities for Boys 3 | |||||||
| Number of sports (boys) | 8.28 (.043) | 7.84 (.035) | 7.45 (.039) | 7.49 (.037) | |||
| Number of teams (boys) | 15.1 (.091) | 13.7 (.074) | 12.6 (.080) | 12.7 (.077) | |||
| Participation Rate (boys) | .524 (.003) | .578 (.002) | .509 (.002) | .520 (.002) | |||
|
Gender Equity
(girls participation rate/boys participation rate)3 |
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| Sport Participation Gender Equity Ratio | .758 (.003) | .803 (.003) | .876 (.021) | .848 (.0033) |
% = percent; SE = Standard Error; n = sample size of schools for the specified year.
Additional bivariate analyses (binary logistic
and linear regression
using a continuous measure for school-year) confirmed significant linear trends at a .001 alpha level for each athletic opportunity listed in the table above. It should be noted that no statistically significant difference was found between boys sport participation rate in 2009–10 versus 2015–16. Additionally, extreme cases were removed if schools indicated offering 51 or more sports (for girls or boys), 61 or more sport teams (for girls or boys), and had a participation rate that exceeded 2.01 (for girls or boys). This resulted in 292 cases being removed (i.e., 86 schools removed for 2009–10; 107 schools removed for 2011–12; 49 schools removed for 2013–14; 50 schools removed for 2015–16).