Subject field | Number of credits earned | Mean course credits earned | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 0.01–0.5 | 0.51–1 | 1.01–2 | 2.01–3 | 3.01–4 | 4.01–5 | 5.01–6 | More than 6 | ||
Mathematics | 0.8 | 0.4 | 12.5 | 31.5 | 27.7 | 21.0 | 5.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.6 |
Science | 2.2 | 1.1 | 22.4 | 37.7 | 20.2 | 11.8 | 3.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.2 |
English | † | # | 0.3 | 2.0 | 19.6 | 53.5 | 17.5 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 3.9 |
Social Studies | # | 0.1 | 0.9 | 15.2 | 39.7 | 30.9 | 10.0 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 3.2 |
Fine Arts | 32.1 | 10.9 | 17.2 | 15.4 | 9.6 | 7.9 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
Foreign Languages | 47.2 | 2.8 | 14.5 | 19.8 | 9.4 | 5.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.1 |
Computer-Related Studies | 85.0 | 8.3 | 4.7 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | # | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Consumer & Homemaking Education | 51.7 | 14.6 | 14.9 | 11.3 | 4.6 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 |
General Labor Market Preparation | 21.6 | 19.3 | 32.2 | 18.1 | 5.2 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 |
Specific Labor Market Preparation | 15.7 | 6.6 | 13.2 | 16.7 | 13.7 | 10.7 | 7.7 | 5.9 | 9.9 | 2.7 |
General Skills | 76.1 | 9.5 | 8.5 | 4.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | # | # | 0.2 |
Personal Health & Physical Education | 2.9 | 3.7 | 13.4 | 32.8 | 25.3 | 13.8 | 5.8 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 2.3 |
Religion | 89.9 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 0.2 | # | # | 0.2 |
Military Science | 97.8 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | # | # | # |
Special Education | 99.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | # | # | 0.1 | 0.1 | # |
All Courses Other Than Above | 100.0 | # | # | # | # | # | # | # | # | # |
† Not applicable. The inclusion/exclusion criteria used to produce the tabulations require high school graduates to have a positive number of English credits.
# Rounds to zero.
NOTE: 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 and Beyond (HS&B), 1982.