Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

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Table H193. Average number of credits public high school graduates earned in various curricular and subject areas, by career and technical education (CTE) coursetaking pattern: 2013

CTE coursetaking pattern	Number of graduates (in thousands)	Total credits, all subjects	Academic credits¹				CTE credits³	Other credits
CTE coursetaking pattern	Number of graduates (in thousands)	Total credits, all subjects	Total, academic credits	All core academic credits²	Mathe-matics credits	Science credits	CTE credits³	Other credits
Total, all graduates	3,192	26.68	19.76	15.74	3.89	3.62	2.60	4.32

Number of CTE credits
0.00–0.99 credits	616	25.53	21.07	15.91	3.92	3.76	0.19	4.27
At least 1 credit	2,576	26.95	19.44	15.69	3.88	3.59	3.18	4.33
1.00–2.99 credits	1,333	26.17	20.07	15.90	3.87	3.70	1.65	4.44
3.00 or more credits	1,243	27.79	18.77	15.47	3.90	3.48	4.81	4.21

2-credit CTE concentrator status⁴
Non-concentrator, total	1,966	26.03	20.29	15.84	3.88	3.69	1.33	4.41
Earned fewer than 2 CTE credits	1,331	25.81	20.72	15.93	3.90	3.74	0.73	4.35
Earned at least 2 CTE credits, but fewer than 2 credits in any CTE area	635	26.49	19.39	15.65	3.84	3.57	2.57	4.53
Concentrator, total	1,226	27.71	18.90	15.56	3.90	3.52	4.64	4.17
Agriculture and natural resources	159	27.42	17.47	14.69	3.69	3.09	5.35	4.59
Business, finance, and marketing	307	28.19	19.24	15.88	4.02	3.56	4.71	4.25
Communication and communication technologies	171	27.93	19.70	15.75	3.94	3.59	4.37	3.86
Computer and information sciences	87	27.99	19.54	15.93	4.06	3.57	4.74	3.71
Construction	97	27.67	17.12	14.68	3.72	3.26	6.17	4.38
Consumer services	154	27.75	18.46	15.22	3.84	3.30	5.27	4.03
Engineering, design, and production	202	27.73	18.40	15.38	3.93	3.53	5.35	3.98
Health care	127	29.01	20.23	16.41	4.00	4.17	4.83	3.95
Mechanical repair and operation	69	27.74	16.83	14.72	3.82	3.12	6.47	4.45
Public services	75	28.02	19.04	15.62	3.80	3.55	4.94	4.04

3-credit CTE concentrator status⁴
Non-concentrator, total	2,564	26.32	20.10	15.83	3.89	3.67	1.82	4.39
Earned fewer than 3 CTE credits	1,949	25.97	20.39	15.90	3.88	3.72	1.19	4.39
Earned at least 3 CTE credits, but fewer than 3 credits in any CTE area	615	27.44	19.20	15.61	3.93	3.52	3.83	4.42
Concentrator, total	627	28.12	18.34	15.34	3.87	3.44	5.77	4.01
Agriculture and natural resources	83	27.37	17.05	14.47	3.68	3.01	6.05	4.27
Business, finance, and marketing	130	28.55	18.90	15.73	3.97	3.47	5.43	4.22
Communication and communication technologies	59	28.32	19.30	15.54	3.89	3.58	5.30	3.72
Computer and information sciences	27	28.20	18.63	15.45	3.97	3.56	6.08	3.48
Construction	48	28.06	16.67	14.68	3.80	3.24	7.34	4.04
Consumer services	69	28.49	18.16	15.21	3.83	3.22	6.53	3.79
Engineering, design, and production	102	27.98	17.93	15.27	3.90	3.48	6.13	3.93
Health care	66	29.46	20.09	16.47	4.05	4.27	5.53	3.84
Mechanical repair and operation	46	27.70	16.92	14.78	3.83	3.16	6.63	4.15
Public services	32	27.71	18.24	15.00	3.64	3.29	5.65	3.82

Any credits earned in
Agriculture and natural resources	456	26.56	17.83	14.67	3.65	3.21	4.06	4.66
Business, finance, and marketing	1,383	27.12	19.46	15.74	3.91	3.60	3.33	4.33
Communication and communication technologies	912	27.00	19.65	15.67	3.87	3.59	3.18	4.17
Computer and information sciences	647	27.21	19.78	15.96	3.93	3.71	3.25	4.18
Construction	335	26.72	17.67	14.81	3.73	3.30	4.48	4.57
Consumer services	685	26.69	18.86	15.25	3.82	3.39	3.43	4.40
Engineering, design, and production	686	27.03	18.80	15.42	3.88	3.55	3.95	4.28
Health care	365	27.89	20.02	16.25	3.95	4.03	3.69	4.17
Mechanical repair and operation	207	26.20	16.99	14.44	3.67	3.12	4.60	4.62
Public services	417	26.78	19.18	15.41	3.85	3.35	3.51	4.09
No CTE areas	384	25.92	21.62	16.13	3.98	3.81	0.00	4.29

¹ Academic credits are credits in English, mathematics, science, social sciences, fine arts, and foreign languages.
² Core academic credits are credits in English, mathematics, science, and social sciences.
³ CTE credits are credits in these 10 subject areas: agriculture and natural resources; business, finance, and marketing; communications and communication technologies; computer and information sciences; construction; consumer services; engineering, design, and production; health care; mechanical repair and operation; and public services.
⁴ The 2- and 3-credit CTE concentrators are students who earned at least 2 or at least 3 credits, respectively, in one of the 10 CTE subject areas listed in footnote 3.
NOTE: Public high school graduates are defined as students who graduated from a public high school with an honors or standard diploma by August 31 of their scheduled graduation year (2013). The table includes only graduates who had a complete grade 9–12 transcript, defined as one that recorded at least 16 Carnegie units (a Carnegie unit is a credit hour, i.e., the equivalent of a 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/xls/SSCT2018.xls for the taxonomy used to define subject areas. 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 Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), Base-year, 2013 Update, and High School Transcript File.

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