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Table H197. Average number of credits public high school graduates earned in each curricular and subject area, by student's Individualized Education Program (IEP) status, whether English was student's first language, and parents' highest level of education: 2013
Curricular and subject area IEP in grade 9   English was first language   Parents' highest education1
Yes     No     Yes     No     High school
education or less
    Some college     Bachelor's degree
or higher
 
Total, all curricular areas2 26.50     26.58     26.77     26.24     26.44     26.71     26.97  
                                         
Academic 18.13     19.93     19.75     19.78     19.10     19.59     20.67  
Core academic3 15.25     15.63     15.71     15.83     15.47     15.69     16.09  
Fine arts 1.72     2.18     2.07     1.77     1.83     1.99     2.26  
Foreign languages 1.15     2.12     1.97     2.18     1.79     1.91     2.31  
                                         
Career and technical education (CTE) 2.91     2.40     2.67     2.30     2.77     2.75     2.31  
Agriculture and natural resources 0.31     0.26     0.26     0.15     0.30     0.26     0.17  
Business, finance, and marketing 0.52     0.50     0.57     0.52     0.58     0.64     0.51  
Communication and communication technologies 0.35     0.34     0.34     0.35     0.34     0.33     0.34  
Computer and information sciences 0.23     0.22     0.21     0.22     0.21     0.20     0.23  
Construction 0.29     0.16     0.18     0.09     0.18     0.20     0.11  
Consumer services 0.32     0.25     0.29     0.30     0.35     0.28     0.22  
Engineering, design, and production 0.41     0.29     0.35     0.22     0.32     0.36     0.33  
Health care 0.08     0.14     0.19     0.18     0.19     0.20     0.18  
Mechanical repair and operation 0.23     0.09     0.12     0.10     0.15     0.12     0.08  
Public services 0.17     0.14     0.16     0.16     0.16     0.16     0.15  
                                         
Other 5.47     4.25     4.35     4.16     4.57     4.37     3.98  
CTE-related 0.92     0.53     0.55     0.36     0.58     0.54     0.42  
Family and consumer sciences education 0.56     0.38     0.39     0.26     0.39     0.39     0.32  
Career exploration 0.36     0.14     0.16     0.10     0.18     0.15     0.10  
Non-CTE-related 4.55     3.72     3.80     3.80     3.99     3.83     3.56  
                                         
CTE and CTE-related 3.83     2.92     3.21     2.65     3.35     3.29     2.74  
1 Parents’ highest level of education is the highest level of education attained by either parent.
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 graduating year (2013 for HSLS:09 sample members). The table includes only graduates with a complete set of transcripts, 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 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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