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 | # | 0.7 | 9.0 | 33.9 | 40.8 | 12.8 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 3.5 |
Science | 0.3 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 21.6 | 38.9 | 27.2 | 7.5 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 3.1 |
English | † | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 8.0 | 57.5 | 24.7 | 5.4 | 2.0 | 4.1 |
Social Studies | 0.1 | # | 0.1 | 2.6 | 31.9 | 41.4 | 17.7 | 4.7 | 1.5 | 3.8 |
Fine Arts | 21.2 | 8.2 | 21.5 | 19.4 | 10.2 | 8.2 | 4.9 | 2.4 | 3.9 | 1.9 |
Foreign Languages | 17.9 | 2.4 | 12.0 | 33.1 | 20.2 | 11.2 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 2.0 |
Computer-Related Studies | 34.3 | 23.8 | 22.7 | 14.2 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 |
Consumer & Homemaking Education | 58.2 | 15.7 | 13.5 | 9.0 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | # | # | 0.5 |
General Labor Market Preparation | 42.8 | 24.8 | 19.8 | 8.9 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 |
Specific Labor Market Preparation | 14.2 | 9.1 | 14.3 | 18.1 | 13.4 | 10.3 | 7.3 | 5.0 | 8.4 | 2.6 |
General Skills | 61.3 | 14.2 | 11.3 | 8.5 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
Personal Health & Physical Education | 1.0 | 3.3 | 14.7 | 33.2 | 26.9 | 14.2 | 4.6 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 2.3 |
Religion | 90.8 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 3.4 | 0.2 | # | # | 0.2 |
Military Science | 96.5 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Special Education | 94.2 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 0.3 |
All Courses Other Than Above | 98.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | # | 0.1 | # | # | # | # |
† 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), 1998.