Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

Tables: Secondary/High School

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Table H190. Percentage of public high school graduates who earned credits in each career and technical education (CTE) subject area and, among those graduates, average number of credits earned and percentage who concentrated in each CTE subject area: 2013

CTE subject area	Percent of graduates earning credits in CTE area	Among graduates who earned credits in the CTE area
CTE subject area	Percent of graduates earning credits in CTE area	Average number of credits earned in CTE area	Percent 2-credit concentrator¹	Percent 3-credit concentrator¹
Agriculture and natural resources	14.3	1.71	34.8	18.1
Business, finance, and marketing	43.3	1.30	22.2	9.4
Communication and communication technologies	28.6	1.19	18.8	6.4
Computer and information sciences	20.3	1.06	13.4	4.2
Construction	10.5	1.53	29.1	14.2
Consumer services	21.5	1.35	22.5	10.1
Engineering, design, and production	21.5	1.52	29.4	14.8
Health care	11.4	1.65	34.7	18.1
Mechanical repair and operation	6.5	1.74	33.1	22.1
Public services	13.1	1.22	18.0	7.6

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.
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.
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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