Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics
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Table H196. Average number of credits public high school graduates earned in each curricular or subject area, by student race/ethnicity and sex: 2013
Curricular and subject area Race/ethnicity1   Sex
White     Black     Hispanic     Asian/
Pacific
Islander		     Male     Female  
Total, all curricular areas2 26.82     27.26     26.07     26.75     26.47     26.87  
                                   
Academic 19.80     20.07     19.30     21.02     19.10     20.38  
Core academic3 15.62     16.37     15.51     16.69     15.57     15.89  
Fine arts 2.17     1.78     1.80     1.83     1.71     2.31  
Foreign languages 2.01     1.92     1.99     2.50     1.82     2.18  
                                   
Career and technical education (CTE) 2.78     2.55     2.36     1.95     2.88     2.34  
Agriculture and natural resources 0.33     0.13     0.18     0.05     0.29     0.20  
Business, finance, and marketing 0.55     0.72     0.49     0.51     0.58     0.55  
Communication and communication technologies 0.36     0.26     0.35     0.29     0.30     0.37  
Computer and information sciences 0.23     0.18     0.22     0.27     0.28     0.16  
Construction 0.22     0.10     0.08     0.08 !   0.29     0.04  
Consumer services 0.27     0.36     0.32     0.16     0.16     0.41  
Engineering, design, and production 0.39     0.23     0.26     0.21 !   0.54     0.12  
Health care 0.16     0.28     0.18     ‡     0.09     0.28  
Mechanical repair and operation 0.13     0.10 !   0.09     0.06 !   0.21     0.02  
Public services 0.14     0.19     0.19     0.09 !   0.13     0.19  
                                   
Other 4.24     4.64     4.41     3.78     4.50     4.15  
CTE-related 0.57     0.60     0.36     0.30     0.44     0.59  
Family and consumer sciences education 0.42     0.42     0.24     0.22     0.29     0.44  
Career exploration 0.15     0.18     0.12     0.07 !   0.15     0.14  
Non-CTE-related 3.66     4.04     4.05     3.48     4.06     3.56  
                                   
CTE and CTE-related 3.36     3.15     2.72     2.25     3.31     2.92  
! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error is between 30 and 50 percent of the estimate.
‡ Reporting standards not met. The standard error is greater than 50 percent of the estimate.
1 Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, and Asian/Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin. American Indian or Alaska Native students and students of Two or more races are not shown separately, but are included in the total row and in rows for other student characteristics.
2 Total credits are academic, CTE, and other credits. To avoid double counting, “CTE and CTE-related” credits are not included in total credits.
3 Core academic credits are credits in English, mathematics, science, and social sciences.
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. 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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