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Table H125. Average number of credits and percentage of total credits that public high school graduates earned during high school, by curricular area: 1990, 2000, 2005, and 2009 |
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| Average number of credits earned | Percent of total credits earned | ||||||||||||||||
| Curricular area | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2009 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2009 | |||||||||
| All curricular areas, total | 23.5 | 25.9 | 26.7 | 26.9 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||||||||
| Academic, total | 16.7 | 18.8 | 19.4 | 20.0 | 70.7 | 72.7 | 73.0 | 74.4 | |||||||||
| Core academics, total | 13.6 | 14.9 | 15.4 | 15.8 | 57.8 | 57.7 | 58.1 | 58.9 | |||||||||
| English | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 17.9 | 17.0 | 16.7 | 16.7 | |||||||||
| Mathematics | 3.2 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 13.4 | 13.5 | 13.8 | 14.1 | |||||||||
| Science | 2.8 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 11.7 | 12.3 | 12.6 | 12.9 | |||||||||
| Social studies | 3.5 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 14.8 | 14.8 | 15.0 | 15.2 | |||||||||
| Fine arts | 1.6 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 6.5 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.7 | |||||||||
| Foreign languages | 1.5 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 6.4 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.8 | |||||||||
| Enrichment/other | 2.7 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 11.3 | 11.2 | 12.1 | 12.6 | |||||||||
| Career/technical education (CTE), total | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 18.0 | 16.1 | 14.9 | 13.1 | |||||||||
| Non-occupational CTE, total | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 6.5 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 4.1 | |||||||||
| Family and consumer sciences education | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.3 | |||||||||
| General labor market preparation, total | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 2.8 | |||||||||
| Basic keyboarding/typewriting | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |||||||||
| Career preparation | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 2.1 | |||||||||
| Industrial arts | 0.1 | 0.1 | # | # | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||||||||
| Introduction to technology | # | 0.1 | 0.1 | # | # | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |||||||||
| Other general labor market preparation | # | # | # | # | # | # | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||||||
| Occupational education, total | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 11.4 | 10.9 | 9.8 | 9.0 | |||||||||
| Agriculture and natural resources | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.7 | |||||||||
| Business | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 1.5 | |||||||||
| Business finance | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |||||||||
| Business management | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | |||||||||
| Business support | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |||||||||
| Communications and design | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.8 | |||||||||
| Construction and architecture | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |||||||||
| Architecture | # | # | # | # | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||||||
| Construction | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |||||||||
| Consumer and culinary services | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |||||||||
| Consumer services | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |||||||||
| Culinary arts | # | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |||||||||
| Engineering technologies | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |||||||||
| Health sciences | # | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | |||||||||
| Manufacturing | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.6 | |||||||||
| Marketing | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |||||||||
| Public services | # | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |||||||||
| Education and library science | # | 0.1 | # | # | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |||||||||
| Education | # | # | # | # | # | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||||||
| Library science | # | # | # | # | 0.1 | # | # | # | |||||||||
| Protective and legal services/ | |||||||||||||||||
| public administration | # | # | # | 0.1 | # | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||||||||
| Protective services | # | # | # | 0.1 | # | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |||||||||
| Public administration and legal services | # | # | # | # | # | # | # | # | |||||||||
| Repair and transportation | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | |||||||||
| Mechanics and repair | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |||||||||
| Transportation | # | # | # | # | 0.1 | # | # | ‡ | |||||||||
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# Rounds to zero. ‡ Reporting standards not met. 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 Transcript Study (HSTS), 1990, 2000, 2005, and 2009. |
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