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Table H199. Percentage of public high school graduates with each career and technical education (CTE) coursetaking pattern, by highest level of mathematics and completion of college preparatory coursework: 2013
CTE coursetaking pattern Highest mathematics course taken1            
Below Algebra II     Algebra II or other advanced course below pre-calculus     Pre-calculus or Calculus     Completed college preparatory coursework2     Did not complete college preparatory coursework2  
Number of CTE credits                            
0.00–0.99 credits 14.2     16.8     24.3     20.8     17.4  
At least 1 credit 85.8     83.2     75.7     79.2     82.6  
1.00–2.99 credits 44.6     40.0     43.3     41.9     41.6  
3.00 or more credits 41.2     43.2     32.4     37.3     41.0  
                             
Any credits earned                            
CTE 92.7     90.0     83.7     85.8     90.6  
Agriculture and natural resources 27.4     15.0     9.1     9.8     19.7  
Business, finance, and marketing 39.8     46.1     40.5     44.4     42.0  
Communication and communication technologies 24.4     28.6     29.8     28.9     28.1  
Computer and information sciences 19.4     20.0     21.0     19.9     20.7  
Construction 16.4     11.4     7.3     7.0     14.8  
Consumer services 28.1     24.6     15.1     19.4     24.0  
Engineering, design, and production 20.6     21.8     21.4     18.9     24.7  
Health care 6.1     13.7     10.1     13.4     9.1  
Mechanical repair and operation 12.8     7.0     3.8     3.7     9.9  
Public services 10.8     15.0     11.1     12.5     13.7  
                             
CTE-related 56.3     48.3     37.7     40.3     51.5  
Family and consumer sciences education 45.1     40.2     30.2     34.0     40.8  
Career exploration 23.2     16.1     12.4     11.9     20.0  
                             
2-credit CTE concentrator status3                            
Non-concentrator, total 61.1     58.2     66.4     62.5     60.5  
Earned fewer than 2 CTE credits 38.2     37.3     48.9     43.1     40.0  
Earned at least 2 CTE credits, but fewer than 2
credits in any single CTE area
22.9     20.9     17.5     19.4     20.5  
2-credit concentrator 38.9     41.8     33.6     37.5     39.5  
                             
3-credit CTE concentrator status3                            
Non-concentrator, total 77.0     78.1     84.6     82.3     77.9  
Earned fewer than 3 CTE credits 58.8     56.8     67.6     62.7     59.0  
Earned at least 3 CTE credits, but fewer than 3
credits in any single CTE area
18.2     21.2     16.9     19.6     18.9  
3-credit concentrator 23.0     21.9     15.4     17.7     22.1  
1 Mathematics courses are ordered here in increasing level as basic mathematics, other (not advanced) mathematics, pre-algebra, algebra I, geometry, algebra II, trigonometry, other advanced mathematics, probability and statistics, pre-calculus, and calculus.
2 College preparatory coursework is defined as earning 4.0 or more credits in English; 3.0 or more credits in mathematics; 3.0 or more credits in science; 3.0 or more credits in social studies; and 2.0 or more credits in a single foreign language.
3 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 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. Graduates who concentrated in more than one CTE area were counted only once. The 2- and 3-credit non-concentrators are students who did not earn at least 2 or at least 3 credits, respectively, in one CTE subject area.
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.