Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

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Table H185. Average number of credits and percentage of total credits public high school graduates earned, by curricular and subject area: 2013

Curricular and subject area	Average number of credits earned	Percent of total credits earned
Total, all curricular areas¹	26.68	100.0

Academic	19.76	74.2
Core academic	15.74	59.2
English	4.30	16.3
Mathematics	3.89	14.6
Science	3.62	13.6
Social studies	3.92	14.8
Fine arts	2.02	7.5
Foreign languages	2.01	7.5

Career and technical education (CTE)	2.60	9.6
Agriculture and natural resources	0.24	0.9
Business, finance, and marketing	0.56	2.1
Business management	0.13	0.5
Finance	0.10	0.4
Marketing	0.10	0.4
Office support	0.23	0.8
Communication and communication technologies	0.34	1.3
Computer and information sciences	0.22	0.8
Construction	0.16	0.6
Consumer services	0.29	1.1
Child and elder care	0.06	0.2
Cosmetology	0.04	0.1
Hospitality services	0.16	0.6
Textiles and furnishings	0.02	0.1
Engineering, design, and production	0.33	1.2
Engineering and design	0.18	0.7
Manufacturing and technology	0.15	0.6
Health care	0.19	0.7
Mechanical repair and operation	0.11	0.4
Public services	0.16	0.6
Education	0.06	0.2
Public safety and administration	0.10	0.4

Other	4.32	16.2
CTE-related	0.51	1.9
Family and consumer sciences education	0.37	1.4
Career exploration	0.15	0.5
Non-CTE-related	3.80	14.3
Religious education	0.02	0.1
Physical and health education	2.27	8.6
Military sciences	0.14	0.5
Computer literacy	0.19	0.7
Miscellaneous	1.18	4.4

CTE and CTE-related	3.11	11.5

¹ Total credits are academic, CTE, and other credits. To avoid double counting, “CTE and CTE-related” credits are not included in total credits.
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. The estimated total number of public high school graduates is 3,192,000, with a standard error of 31,300. 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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