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Special Analysis 2007

High School Coursetaking

Table 2. Average course credit accrual of spring 2002 10th-graders, by academic year, subject, and high school status: 2004

	Academic year (AY)			Subject (AY 2000–02)
Status in 2004	2000–01	2001–02	Total	English	Mathematics	Science

Dropouts	5.1	4.6	9.7	1.7	1.3	1.2
On-time graduates¹	6.6	6.7	13.3	2.1	2.0	1.8

¹“On-time graduates” are students who graduated high school within 4 years between the fall of 2003 and the summer of 2004.
NOTE: The basic unit of coursework measurement is the course credit. Course credits refer to standardized Carnegie units.
SOURCE: Hampden-Thompson, G., Kienzl, G., Daniel, B., and Kinukawa, A. (2007). Course Credit Accrual and Dropping Out of High School (NCES 2007-018), tables 1 and 2.

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