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| Table H82. Percentage of public high school graduates who were occupational concentrators, by highest mathematics course completed in grade 9, completion of 4-year college preparatory coursework, and number of occupational credits earned: 2005 | |||||||
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| Number of occupational credits earned | All graduates | Grade 9 mathematics | Completed 4-year college preparatory coursework | ||||
| Below algebra or no mathematics | Algebra | Geometry or higher | No | Yes | |||
| Number of graduates | 2,417,400 | 563,100 | 1,268,800 | 585,600 | 1,253,900 | 1,163,600 | |
| Percent who were 2-credit occupational concentrators1 | |||||||
| All graduates | 38.8 | 43.8 | 39.8 | 32.0 | 44.5 | 32.7 | |
| Graduates who earned any occupational credits | 44.7 | 48.9 | 45.6 | 38.3 | 49.2 | 39.5 | |
| Graduates who earned 2.0 or more occupational credits | 68.6 | 70.7 | 69.2 | 64.7 | 70.5 | 66.1 | |
| Percent who were 3-credit occupational concentrators2 | |||||||
| All graduates | 21.3 | 26.2 | 21.5 | 16.1 | 26.5 | 15.6 | |
| Graduates who earned any occupational credits | 24.5 | 29.3 | 24.6 | 19.3 | 29.3 | 18.8 | |
| Graduates who earned 3.0 or more occupational credits | 54.1 | 58.3 | 53.2 | 50.5 | 57.3 | 48.9 | |
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1 2-credit occupational concentrators are defined as graduates who earned
2.0 or more credits in any one of the following 11 occupational areas: agriculture
and natural resources; business; communications and design; computer and information
sciences; construction and architecture; consumer and culinary services; engineering
technologies; health sciences; manufacturing, repair, and transportation; marketing;
and public services.
2 3-credit occupational concentrators are defined as graduates who earned 3.0 or more credits in any one of the 11 occupational areas listed in footnote 1. NOTE: This table shows, for example, that among all public high school graduates from the class of 2005 who completed no mathematics courses in grade 9 at or above the algebra level (including no courses at all), 43.8 percent were 2-credit occupational concentrators. Also, 48.9 percent of graduates who earned any occupational credits and who took this level of mathematics couses in grade 9 were 2-credit occupational concentrators. 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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