Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

Tables: Secondary/High School

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Related Findings 1 & 2

Table H198. Average number of credits public high school graduates earned in each curricular and subject area, by school locale: 2013

Curricular and subject area	Urban		Suburban or town	Rural
Total, all curricular areas¹	26.80		26.55	26.73

Academic	20.24		19.65	19.43
Core academic²	16.10		15.59	15.59
Fine arts	1.96		2.06	2.02
Foreign languages	2.19		2.01	1.83

Career and technical education (CTE)	2.28		2.64	2.85
Agriculture and natural resources	0.08	!	0.22	0.43
Business, finance, and marketing	0.54		0.56	0.60
Communication and communication technologies	0.32		0.35	0.34
Computer and information sciences	0.22		0.24	0.18
Construction	0.09		0.17	0.22
Consumer services	0.29		0.30	0.28
Engineering, design, and production	0.28		0.35	0.34
Health care	0.24		0.14	0.20
Mechanical repair and operation	0.09		0.14	0.10
Public services	0.14		0.17	0.17

Other	4.28		4.25	4.45
CTE-related	0.38		0.55	0.60
Family and consumer sciences education	0.27		0.39	0.43
Career exploration	0.11		0.15	0.17
Non-CTE-related	3.90		3.71	3.84

CTE and CTE-related	2.65		3.19	3.46

! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error is between 30 and 50 percent of the estimate.
¹ Total credits are academic, CTE, and other credits. To avoid double counting, “CTE and CTE-related” credits are not included in total credits.
² Core academic credits are credits in English, mathematics, science, and social sciences.
NOTE: Locale is based on location of students' 12th-grade school. 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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