Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

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Table H188. Percentage of public high school graduates who concentrated in a career and technical education (CTE) subject area, by CTE coursetaking pattern and CTE subject area: 2013

CTE subject area	All graduates		Graduates who earned CTE credits		Among graduates who earned at least 2 CTE credits, percent 2-credit concentrator¹	Among graduates who earned at least 3 CTE credits, percent 3-credit concentrator¹
CTE subject area	Percent 2-credit concentrator¹	Percent 3-credit concentrator¹	Percent 2-credit concentrator¹	Percent 3-credit concentrator¹
Number of graduates (in thousands)	3,192	3,192	2,807	2,807	1,860	1,243

Any CTE area	38.4	19.7	43.7	22.3	65.9	50.5
Agriculture and natural resources	5.0	2.6	5.7	2.9	8.5	6.7
Business, finance, and marketing	9.6	4.1	10.9	4.6	16.5	10.5
Communication and communication technologies	5.4	1.8	6.1	2.1	9.2	4.7
Computer and information sciences	2.7	0.9	3.1	1.0	4.7	2.2
Construction	3.0	1.5	3.5	1.7	5.2	3.8
Consumer services	4.8	2.2	5.5	2.5	8.3	5.6
Engineering, design, and production	6.3	3.2	7.2	3.6	10.9	8.2
Health care	4.0	2.1	4.5	2.4	6.8	5.3
Mechanical repair and operation	2.1	1.4	2.4	1.6	3.7	3.7
Public services	2.4	1.0	2.7	1.1	4.0	2.5

¹ The 2- and 3-credit CTE concentrators are students who earned at least 2 or at least 3 credits, respectively, in one of the following 10 CTE 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. The "Any CTE area" row includes students who concentrated in at least one of the 10 CTE subject areas.
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.
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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