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| Table H74. Average number of credits earned during high school by public high school graduates, by highest mathematics course completed in grade 9, completion of 4-year college preparatory coursework, and curricular area: 2005 | ||||||||||||||
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| Curricular area | All graduates | Grade 9 mathematics | Completed 4-year college preparatory coursework | |||||||||||
| Below algebra or no mathematics | Algebra | Geometry or higher | No | Yes | ||||||||||
| All curricular areas | 26.67 | 25.73 | 26.63 | 27.65 | 25.79 | 27.62 | ||||||||
| Academic, total | 19.44 | 17.27 | 19.55 | 21.30 | 17.67 | 21.36 | ||||||||
| Core academics, total | 15.42 | 14.34 | 15.46 | 16.38 | 14.46 | 16.46 | ||||||||
| English | 4.42 | 4.42 | 4.42 | 4.44 | 4.32 | 4.53 | ||||||||
| Mathematics | 3.68 | 3.42 | 3.69 | 3.91 | 3.37 | 4.01 | ||||||||
| Science | 3.98 | 3.68 | 4.01 | 4.19 | 3.86 | 4.11 | ||||||||
| Social studies | 3.34 | 2.81 | 3.35 | 3.84 | 2.91 | 3.81 | ||||||||
| Fine arts | 2.05 | 1.77 | 2.05 | 2.34 | 1.93 | 2.19 | ||||||||
| Foreign languages | 1.97 | 1.16 | 2.04 | 2.58 | 1.27 | 2.71 | ||||||||
| Enrichment/other | 3.22 | 3.60 | 3.14 | 3.04 | 3.40 | 3.03 | ||||||||
| Career/technical education (CTE), total | 4.01 | 4.86 | 3.94 | 3.32 | 4.72 | 3.24 | ||||||||
| Non-occupational CTE, total | 1.38 | 1.87 | 1.29 | 1.08 | 1.64 | 1.09 | ||||||||
| Family and consumer sciences education | 0.40 | 0.55 | 0.40 | 0.28 | 0.48 | 0.32 | ||||||||
| General labor market preparation, total | 0.97 | 1.32 | 0.90 | 0.80 | 1.16 | 0.77 | ||||||||
| Occupational education, total | 2.63 | 2.99 | 2.65 | 2.23 | 3.08 | 2.15 | ||||||||
| Agriculture and natural resources | 0.23 | 0.32 | 0.23 | 0.15 | 0.31 | 0.14 | ||||||||
| Business | 0.51 | 0.48 | 0.53 | 0.48 | 0.52 | 0.50 | ||||||||
| Business finance | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.11 | 0.11 | ||||||||
| Business management | 0.17 | 0.17 | 0.18 | 0.14 | 0.19 | 0.15 | ||||||||
| Business support | 0.23 | 0.22 | 0.23 | 0.21 | 0.22 | 0.23 | ||||||||
| Communications and design | 0.36 | 0.29 | 0.39 | 0.36 | 0.36 | 0.35 | ||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 0.24 | 0.19 | 0.23 | 0.29 | 0.22 | 0.25 | ||||||||
| Construction and architecture | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.11 | 0.07 | 0.18 | 0.05 | ||||||||
| Architecture | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | ||||||||
| Construction | 0.10 | 0.16 | 0.09 | 0.05 | 0.16 | 0.03 | ||||||||
| Consumer and culinary services | 0.27 | 0.39 | 0.24 | 0.19 | 0.34 | 0.18 | ||||||||
| Consumer services | 0.16 | 0.23 | 0.15 | 0.11 | 0.20 | 0.11 | ||||||||
| Culinary arts | 0.11 | 0.17 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.14 | 0.08 | ||||||||
| Engineering technologies | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.17 | 0.13 | ||||||||
| Health sciences | 0.16 | 0.18 | 0.16 | 0.13 | 0.17 | 0.15 | ||||||||
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 0.39 | 0.60 | 0.38 | 0.21 | 0.58 | 0.19 | ||||||||
| Manufacturing | 0.21 | 0.32 | 0.21 | 0.12 | 0.30 | 0.12 | ||||||||
| Repair and transportation | 0.18 | 0.28 | 0.17 | 0.09 | 0.27 | 0.07 | ||||||||
| Repair | 0.17 | 0.27 | 0.16 | 0.08 | 0.26 | 0.06 | ||||||||
| Transportation | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | ! | 0.01 | 0.01 | ! | ||||||
| Occupational education, total—continued | ||||||||||||||
| Marketing | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.12 | ||||||||
| Public services | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 0.08 | ||||||||
| Education and library science | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | ||||||||
| Education | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | ||||||||
| Library science | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | ||||||||
| Protective/legal services and public administration | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.04 | ||||||||
| Protective services | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.04 | ||||||||
| Public administration and legal services | # | # | # | # | # | # | ||||||||
| # Rounds to zero. ! Interpret data with caution. Standard error is more than one-third of the estimate. NOTE: This table shows, for example, that public high school graduates from the class of 2005 who completed no mathematics courses in grade 9 above the algebra level (including no courses at all), earned an average of 4.86 credits in CTE. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), 2005. | ||||||||||||||
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