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| Table H83. Percentage of public high school graduates who were occupational concentrators, by size and locale of 12th-grade school, and number of occupational credits earned: 2005 | |||||||||
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| Number of occupational credits | All graduates | Size of 12th-grade school1 | Locale of 12th-grade school | ||||||
| Small | Medium | Large | Urban | Suburban and town | Rural | ||||
| Number of graduates | 2,417,400 | 254,700 | 1,381,400 | 533,200 | 607,600 | 1,142,700 | 667,100 | ||
| Percent who were 2-credit occupational concentrators2 | |||||||||
| All graduates | 38.8 | 49.5 | 39.4 | 33.8 | 33.9 | 35.6 | 48.9 | ||
| Graduates who earned any | |||||||||
| occupational credits | 44.7 | 53.5 | 45.5 | 39.2 | 40.1 | 41.3 | 54.3 | ||
| Graduates who earned 2.0 or more | |||||||||
| occupational credits | 68.6 | 71.3 | 69.7 | 63.8 | 67.6 | 65.7 | 73.4 | ||
| Percent who were 3-credit occupational concentrators3 | |||||||||
| All graduates | 21.3 | 28.1 | 22.2 | 16.9 | 18.8 | 18.6 | 28.1 | ||
| Graduates who earned any | |||||||||
| occupational credits | 24.5 | 30.4 | 25.6 | 19.6 | 22.2 | 21.6 | 31.2 | ||
| Graduates who earned 3.0 or more | |||||||||
| occupational credits | 54.1 | 54.7 | 55.5 | 49.9 | 55.2 | 51.9 | 56.0 | ||
| 1Small schools have up to 499 students, medium schools have 500–1,999 students, and large schools have 2,000 or more students.
22-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. 33-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 2. NOTE: This table shows, for example, that among all public high school graduates from the class of 2005 who attended a small school, 49.5 percent were 2-credit occupational concentrators. Also, 53.5 percent of graduates who attended a small school and earned any occupational credits 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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