For black students, the rate fell to 36 percent from 38 percent.
By this measure, the annual inflation rate has fallen from 2.4 percent last year.
For boys, it fell to 48 percent from 57 percent in the same period.
Inflation had fallen from 100 to 30 percent between 1992 and 1994.
The number taking the test three times fell to less than 13 percent from nearly 15 percent.
The growth fell from 4.5 percent in 1986 and 1987 to 3.5 percent last year.
But that margin fell from 35 percent in the first quarter of the year.
In the last two weeks alone, the average 30-year fixed mortgage has fallen to 7.18 from 7.33 percent.
For those with income between $10,000 and $20,000, the share would fall from 7.6 percent to 7.3 percent.
And in the $200,000-and-over group it would fall by almost half, from 24.36 percent to 12.69 percent.