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Findings: Secondary/High School
Two CTE areas—agriculture and natural resources and construction—follow the overall pattern of more credits earned by students in rural areas and towns than by students in cities and suburbs, two other CTE areas show variations across locale, and six CTE areas have no pattern of credits earned across locale.
| Figure 2. Average number of credits public high school graduates earned in each career and technical education (CTE) subject field, 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 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.
