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| Table H75. Average number of credits earned during high school by public high school graduates, by size and locale of 12th-grade school, and curricular area: 2005 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Curricular area | All graduates | Size of 12th-grade school1 | Locale of 12th-grade school | |||||||||||||
| Small | Medium | Large | Urban | Suburban and town | Rural | |||||||||||
| All curricular areas | 26.67 | 27.09 | 26.89 | 26.12 | 26.21 | 26.53 | 27.32 | |||||||||
| Academic, total | 19.44 | 18.81 | 19.62 | 19.44 | 19.47 | 19.50 | 19.32 | |||||||||
| Core academics, total | 15.42 | 14.99 | 15.54 | 15.43 | 15.29 | 15.47 | 15.46 | |||||||||
| English | 4.42 | 4.41 | 4.37 | 4.53 | 4.52 | 4.40 | 4.38 | |||||||||
| Mathematics | 3.68 | 3.46 | 3.73 | 3.67 | 3.66 | 3.71 | 3.64 | |||||||||
| Science | 3.98 | 3.94 | 4.02 | 3.93 | 3.89 | 3.99 | 4.04 | |||||||||
| Social studies | 3.34 | 3.18 | 3.42 | 3.29 | 3.23 | 3.37 | 3.40 | |||||||||
| Fine arts | 2.05 | 2.35 | 2.07 | 1.90 | 2.17 | 1.95 | 2.13 | |||||||||
| Foreign languages | 1.97 | 1.48 | 2.02 | 2.12 | 2.01 | 2.08 | 1.74 | |||||||||
| Enrichment/other | 3.22 | 3.06 | 3.19 | 3.27 | 3.23 | 3.26 | 3.14 | |||||||||
| Career/technical education (CTE), total | 4.01 | 5.21 | 4.07 | 3.42 | 3.51 | 3.77 | 4.86 | |||||||||
| Non-occupational CTE, total | 1.38 | 1.85 | 1.42 | 1.12 | 1.18 | 1.32 | 1.65 | |||||||||
| Family and consumer sciences education | 0.40 | 0.60 | 0.41 | 0.31 | 0.31 | 0.38 | 0.53 | |||||||||
| General labor market preparation, total | 0.97 | 1.26 | 1.00 | 0.81 | 0.86 | 0.95 | 1.12 | |||||||||
| Occupational education, total | 2.63 | 3.36 | 2.66 | 2.30 | 2.34 | 2.45 | 3.21 | |||||||||
| Agriculture and natural resources | 0.23 | 0.60 | 0.21 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.51 | |||||||||
| Business | 0.51 | 0.70 | 0.50 | 0.46 | 0.50 | 0.48 | 0.56 | |||||||||
| Business finance | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.15 | |||||||||
| Business management | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.19 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.19 | |||||||||
| Business support | 0.23 | 0.38 | 0.19 | 0.24 | 0.25 | 0.21 | 0.23 | |||||||||
| Communications and design | 0.36 | 0.30 | 0.36 | 0.38 | 0.34 | 0.36 | 0.37 | |||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 0.24 | 0.28 | 0.23 | 0.24 | 0.25 | 0.22 | 0.25 | |||||||||
| Construction and architecture | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.10 | 0.19 | |||||||||
| Architecture | 0.02 | 0.01 | ! | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.02 | ||||||||
| Construction | 0.10 | 0.17 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.08 | 0.17 | |||||||||
| Consumer and culinary services | 0.27 | 0.25 | 0.28 | 0.25 | 0.26 | 0.26 | 0.28 | |||||||||
| Consumer services | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.15 | |||||||||
| Culinary arts | 0.11 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.11 | 0.13 | |||||||||
| Engineering technologies | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 0.16 | |||||||||
| Health sciences | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.14 | 0.17 | 0.13 | 0.19 | |||||||||
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 0.39 | 0.56 | 0.43 | 0.26 | 0.31 | 0.35 | 0.53 | |||||||||
| Manufacturing | 0.21 | 0.31 | 0.23 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.21 | 0.29 | |||||||||
| Repair and transportation | 0.18 | 0.25 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.14 | 0.23 | |||||||||
| Repair | 0.17 | 0.24 | 0.18 | 0.11 | 0.17 | 0.13 | 0.23 | |||||||||
| Transportation | 0.01 | 0.01 | ! | 0.01 | ! | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | ! | 0.01 | ||||||
| Marketing | 0.13 | 0.05 | ! | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.09 | ||||||||
| Public services | 0.08 | 0.15 | ! | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.11 | 0.06 | 0.09 | ||||||||
| Education and library science | 0.04 | 0.08 | ! | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | ! | 0.03 | 0.05 | |||||||
| Education | 0.03 | 0.06 | ! | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.04 | ! | 0.02 | 0.03 | |||||||
| Library science | 0.01 | 0.02 | ! | 0.01 | # | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | ||||||||
| Protective/legal services and | ||||||||||||||||
| public administration | 0.04 | 0.07 | ! | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.04 | ||||||||
| Protective services | 0.04 | 0.06 | ! | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.06 | ! | 0.03 | 0.03 | |||||||
| Public administration and legal services | # | # | # | # | # | # | 0.01 | ! | ||||||||
| # Rounds to zero.
! Interpret data with caution. Standard error is more than one-third of the estimate. 1 Small schools have up to 499 students, medium schools have 500–1,999 students, and large schools have 2,000 or more students. NOTE: This table shows, for example, that public high school graduates from the class of 2005 who attended a small school earned an average of 5.21 credits in CTE. 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), 2005. |
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