INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PREDICTORS OF HIGH-SCHOOL TRACK PLACEMENT

Using students' characteristics and measures of the organizational dim ensions of schools from the High School and Beyond study, the authors confirm the findings of previous studies on the importance of individu al characteristics to track placement. They also show that school char acteristics matter. School electivity, academic inclusiveness, and the socioeconomic composition bf a school all influence track placement a nd interact with students' ability and socioeconomic status when addit ional individual variables are controlled.