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Findings: Secondary/High School
Students from rural areas and towns earn fewer academic credits and more CTE credits than their city and suburban counterparts.
| Figure 1. Average number of credits public high school graduates earned in each curricular area, by locale of grade 12 school: 2013 |
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NOTE: Locale is collapsed from a 12-category urban-centric school locale code. Suburb
and city are locales in urbanized areas with a population of 50,000 or more; rural
and town are locales outside of urbanized areas. Public high school graduates are
defined as students who graduated from a public high school with an honors or standard
diploma by August 31, 2013. The figure includes only graduates who had a complete
grade 9–12 transcript, defined as one that recorded at least 16 Carnegie units (the
equivalent of one credit, or one course taken every school day, one period per day,
for a full school year), with a positive, nonzero number of units completed in English.
See https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/tables/H198.asp
for more precise estimates and standard errors.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National
Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09),
Base-year, 2013 Update, and High School Transcript File.
