Table 1.
Part 1 of 2: Means and Proportions Describing the Full Sample and Bivariate Differences by Race in Each Measure for Boys and Girls.
| Boys |
Girls |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Sample |
White |
Black |
Latinx |
Asian |
White |
Black |
Latinx |
Asian |
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| Ninth Grader’s School Misbehavior | 0.06 (1.00) | 0.12 ref | 0.51 *** | 0.42 *** | −0.05 ** | −0.25 ref | 0.07 *** | 0.12 *** | −0.33 |
| Contextual Contributors to School Misbehavior | |||||||||
| Region: | |||||||||
| Northeast | 0.18 | 0.20 ref | 0.11 *** | 0.15 | 0.18 | 0.20 ref | 0.18 | 0.12 *** | 0.20 |
| Midwest | 0.22 | 0.29 ref | 0.25 ** | 0.09 *** | 0.15 | 0.29 ref | 0.15 *** | 0.09 *** | 0.14 |
| South | 0.38 | 0.35 ref | 0.55 ** | 0.34 *** | 0.23 | 0.34 ref | 0.61 *** | 0.36 *** | 0.24 |
| West | 0.22 | 0.15 ref | 0.08 *** | 0.41 *** | 0.44 *** | 0.17 ref | 0.06 *** | 0.43 *** | 0.42 *** |
| Urbanicity: | |||||||||
| City | 0.32 | 0.21 ref | 0.40 *** | 0.48 *** | 0.48 *** | 0.21 ref | 0.47 *** | 0.47 *** | 0.48 * |
| Suburban | 0.34 | 0.35 ref | 0.32 | 0.31 *** | 0.34 | 0.34 ref | 0.28 | 0.34 *** | 0.41 *** |
| Town | 0.11 | 0.15 ref | 0.09 | 0.06 *** | 0.06 | 0.15 ref | 0.09 | 0.06 *** | 0.02 *** |
| Rural | 0.23 | 0.29 ref | 0.18 | 0.15 *** | 0.12 *** | 0.30 ref | 0.16 | 0.14 *** | 0.09 *** |
| School type: | |||||||||
| Public | 0.93 | 0.91 ref | 0.96 * | 0.97 *** | 0.92 * | 0.90 ref | 0.97 *** | 0.95 * | 0.91 |
| Catholic | 0.04 | 0.05 ref | 0.03* | 0.02 *** | 0.02 * | 0.05 ref | 0.02 *** | 0.03 * | 0.03 |
| Other private | 0.03 | 0.05 ref | 0.01 *** | 0.01 *** | 0.06 | 0.05 ref | 0.01 *** | 0.02 *** | 0.06 |
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| Percent students eligible for free or reduced lunch | |||||||||
| Quartile 1 (least) (ref) | 39.15 (25.15) | 31.34 ref | 52.75 *** | 51.56 *** | 35.42 | 30.81 ref | 54.23 *** | 48.90 *** | 30.73 |
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| Contextual Contributors to School Misbehavior, continued | |||||||||
| Percent students Black | 15.64 (18.67) | 10.46 ref | 39.59 *** | 14.50 ** | 12.39 | 10.01 ref | 40.31 *** | 13.52 *** | 12.54 |
| Percent students Latinx | 18.63 (20.30) | 9.96 ref | 13.33 * | 40.16 *** | 23.31 *** | 9.67 ref | 17.46 *** | 4.75 *** | 22.81 *** |
| Percent students Asian | 4.09 (7.12) | 2.94 ref | 2.86 | 5.74 *** | 15.74 *** | 2.84 ref | 2.55 | 5.93 *** | 17.05 ** |
| Negative peer climate | 0.15 (1.00) | 0.02 ref | 0.28 ** | 0.43 *** | 0.35 * | 0.02 ref | 0.15 | 0.34 *** | 0.29 |
| Adolescents’ Negative Experiences | |||||||||
| Negative experiences with teacher | 0.03 (1.00) | 0.05 ref | 0.10 | 0.05 | −0.17 ** | 0.00 ref | −0.06 | 0.09 * | −0.03 |
| Negative experiences with 9th math math course placement | 0.02 (1.00) | 0.03 ref | 0.24 ** | 0.12 | −0.14 ** | −0.10 ref | −0.03 | 0.13 *** | −0.24 * |
| Negative experiences with achievement | 0.10 (0.88) | −0.01 ref | 0.72 *** | 0.48 *** | −0.49 *** | −0.20 ref | 0.47 *** | 0.32 *** | −0.70 *** |
| Adolescents (n) | 19,160 | 5,990 | 1,130 | 1,750 | 840 | 5,820 | 1,060 | 1,740 | 820 |
| Proportion of population | 0.58 | 0.13 | 0.25 | 0.04 | 0.56 | 0.16 | 0.24 | 0.04 | |
Source: US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, “The High School Longitudinal Study of 2009” 2009. Note: Standard deviations in parentheses below means. ref= reference group.
***
p < 0.001
**
p < 0.01
*
p < 0.05.