Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics for Selected Study Variables

	Mean (SD)	Percent
High School Characteristics
Mean % of student body in students’ schools from families at 300+% poverty line	.26
	(.14)
% of sample in schools with < 20% of student body from middle/high-income families		36.25
% of sample in schools with 20 to 40% of student body from middle/high-income families		44.92
% of sample in schools with > 40% of student body from middle/high-income families		18.83
Mean % of student body in students’ schools with college-educated parents	.26
	(.10)
% of sample in schools with < 20% of student body with college-educated parents		24.23
% of sample in schools with 20 to 40% of student body with college-educated parents		66.54
% of sample in schools with > 40% of student body with college-educated parents		9.23
Student Academic Indicators
Final math course level	5.35
	(1.86)
Final science course level	3.96
	(1.24)
Final grade point average	2.22
	(.83)
Student Psychosocial Indicators
Negative self-image (Wave II)	1.86
	(.60)
Perceived social isolation (Wave II)	1.91
	(.73)
Depression (Wave II)	8.20
	(6.11)

Note: N = 1,119 low-income students in public schools. The academic indicators represent end-of-school outcomes from four-year school transcripts, which could occur anywhere between 0 to 2 years prior to Wave II, depending on whether the student was in 11th, 10th, or 9th grade in Wave I.