Percentage and number of full-time public schools with a 12th grade offering work-based learning for credit and job shadowing, by selected school characteristics: 2004

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Table H15. Percentage and number of public schools with a 12th grade that offered work-based learning for credit and job shadowing, by selected school characteristics: 2004
	Percent		Number
School characteristic	Work-based learning for credit	Job shadowing	Work-based learning for credit	Job shadowing
All public schools with 12th grade	71.8	60.0	16,000	13,400
School type
Regular	76.2	68.5	12,100	10,900
Special emphasis	74.1	54.1	600	400
Special education	66.0	48.6	400	300
Vocational/technical	91.0	75.2	400	300
Alternative	55.3	31.9	2,500	1,500
Charter school status
Charter school	60.3	27.4	500	200
Not a charter school	72.3	61.3	15,500	13,100
School size
1–599 students	62.4	52.1	8,300	6,900
600–1,199 students	83.1	71.4	3,800	3,200
1,200–1,999 students	87.3	73.2	2,700	2,300
2,000 or more students	92.1	71.0	1,200	900
Locale
Urban	75.3	52.7	3,300	2,300
Suburban and town	74.6	60.5	6,900	5,600
Rural	67.2	63.3	5,800	5,400
Percent of students eligible for NSLP
1–10 percent	71.9	70.2	—	—
11–30 percent	79.2	64.0	—	—
31–50 percent	79.1	58.4	—	—
More than 50 percent	65.6	46.5	—	—
— Not available due to some schools having missing data for the percent of students eligible for NSLP. NOTE: NSLP is the National School Lunch Program. Area CTE schools were not fully included in the data collection and thus are not included in this table. Area CTE schools are described in tables H8 and H9. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public School Questionnaire," 2003–04.

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