Subject field | Number of credits earned | Mean course credits earned | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 0.01–0.5 | 0.51–1 | 1.01–2 | 2.01–3 | 3.01–4 | 4.01–5 | 5.01–6 | More than 6 | ||
Mathematics | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 7.2 | 30.9 | 40.8 | 15.6 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 3.7 |
Science | 0.4 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 20.1 | 38.3 | 27.3 | 7.9 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 3.2 |
English | † | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 7.2 | 52.9 | 27.7 | 7.0 | 3.2 | 4.3 |
Social Studies | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 27.9 | 42.1 | 19.6 | 5.6 | 2.5 | 3.9 |
Fine Arts | 16.9 | 8.5 | 22.9 | 20.0 | 11.4 | 8.2 | 4.8 | 2.7 | 4.6 | 2.0 |
Foreign Languages | 16.0 | 2.2 | 10.3 | 35.6 | 20.2 | 11.1 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 2.1 |
Computer-Related Studies | 33.4 | 20.9 | 24.5 | 14.9 | 3.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
Consumer & Homemaking Education | 60.7 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 8.8 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | # | # | 0.5 |
General Labor Market Preparation | 44.2 | 22.3 | 18.1 | 9.5 | 3.3 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
Specific Labor Market Preparation | 13.1 | 9.2 | 14.4 | 19.1 | 12.9 | 9.9 | 6.7 | 5.1 | 9.7 | 2.7 |
General Skills | 59.4 | 14.5 | 13.1 | 8.1 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
Personal Health & Physical Education | 1.9 | 4.9 | 16.4 | 33.2 | 25.8 | 11.0 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
Religion | 90.9 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 4.6 | 0.2 | # | # | 0.3 |
Military Science | 95.3 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | # | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Special Education | 85.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 0.4 |
All Courses Other Than Above | 92.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 |
† Not applicable. The inclusion/exclusion criteria used to produce the tabulations require high school graduates to have a positive number of English credits.
# Rounds to zero.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), 2000.