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2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report
Table 30-L.Percentage of high school graduates who earned various numbers of course credits and mean number of earned course credits, by subject field and selected school and student demographic characteristics: 2000 (Personal Health & Physical Education)
| Characteristic | 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 | ||
| Personal Health & Physical Education | 1.9 | 4.9 | 16.4 | 33.2 | 25.8 | 11.0 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
| Student gender | ||||||||||
| Male | 2.0 | 4.2 | 12.2 | 31.0 | 26.7 | 14.0 | 6.4 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 2.4 |
| Female | 1.9 | 5.5 | 20.2 | 35.3 | 25.0 | 8.3 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 2.0 |
| Student race/ethnicity1 | ||||||||||
| White | 1.9 | 4.9 | 17.5 | 34.0 | 25.4 | 9.7 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 2.1 |
| Black | 1.4 | 4.1 | 20.0 | 35.4 | 20.4 | 11.6 | 5.1 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 2.2 |
| Hispanic | 2.3 | 4.7 | 8.7 | 28.8 | 30.3 | 16.8 | 5.9 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 2.5 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 1.9 | 3.0 | 10.5 | 29.7 | 32.2 | 17.3 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 2.4 |
| American Indian | 3.9 | 6.4 | 9.9 | 41.2 | 19.1 | 11.5 | 6.6 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 2.2 |
| Student program | ||||||||||
| Academic | 1.7 | 4.6 | 16.6 | 32.2 | 26.7 | 11.3 | 4.8 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
| Vocational | 3.4 | 6.5 | 10.1 | 31.8 | 29.3 | 13.1 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 2.2 |
| Both | 2.1 | 5.4 | 17.1 | 38.8 | 21.9 | 9.3 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 2.1 |
| Neither | 3.6 | 5.6 | 15.2 | 26.4 | 27.6 | 13.4 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 2.3 |
| Community type | ||||||||||
| Urban | 2.0 | 7.0 | 17.4 | 35.5 | 24.6 | 8.9 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 2.0 |
| Suburban | 1.7 | 4.1 | 18.4 | 29.8 | 26.6 | 12.5 | 4.9 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 2.2 |
| Rural | 2.2 | 4.3 | 11.6 | 37.7 | 25.3 | 10.3 | 4.9 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 2.3 |
| School type | ||||||||||
| Public | 1.8 | 5.0 | 13.6 | 34.4 | 26.1 | 11.7 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 2.3 |
| Nonpublic | 3.0 | 3.0 | 46.3 | 20.8 | 22.6 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.6 |
| Region of the country2 | ||||||||||
| Northeast | 1.8 | 3.7 | 7.6 | 36.9 | 36.1 | 9.7 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 2.2 |
| South | 2.1 | 7.1 | 22.3 | 33.3 | 18.7 | 8.8 | 4.8 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 2.1 |
| Midwest | 2.9 | 4.5 | 23.2 | 37.6 | 18.3 | 9.7 | 2.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.9 |
| West | 0.4 | 2.4 | 5.3 | 24.4 | 38.6 | 17.7 | 6.9 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 2.8 |
1 American Indian includes Alaska Native, Black includes African American, Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian, and Hispanic includes Latino. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified.
2 "Region of the country" refers to the Census-defined regions. For more information about Census-defined regions, see the U.S. Census Bureau online publication "Census Regions and Divisions of the United States" (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf [1.1M PDF]).
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.
Last updated 21 May 2007 (MH)
