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2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report
Table 26.Percentage of high school graduates who earned various numbers of course credits and mean number of earned course credits, by subject field: 1994
| Subject field | Number of credits earned | Mean course credits earned | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0.01–0.5 | 0.51–1 | 1.01–2 | 2.01–3 | 3.01–4 | 4.01–5 | 5.01–6 | More than 6 | ||
| Mathematics | # | 0.1 | 0.9 | 11.5 | 34.3 | 39.9 | 11.6 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 3.4 |
| Science | 0.2 | 0.1 | 2.3 | 26.2 | 36.8 | 25.1 | 7.0 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 3.1 |
| English | † | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 6.3 | 60.8 | 23.9 | 5.5 | 2.4 | 4.2 |
| Social Studies | 0.1 | # | 0.2 | 4.9 | 37.2 | 40.4 | 13.6 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 3.6 |
| Fine Arts | 22.7 | 9.4 | 23.2 | 18.5 | 9.9 | 8.7 | 3.9 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.6 |
| Foreign Languages | 21.3 | 2.5 | 12.8 | 33.9 | 17.5 | 9.7 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
| Computer-Related Studies | 38.5 | 23.6 | 23.4 | 11.2 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | # | 0.6 |
| Consumer & Homemaking Education | 56.6 | 16.5 | 13.4 | 9.3 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | # | 0.5 |
| General Labor Market Preparation | 38.9 | 22.5 | 24.6 | 10.4 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Specific Labor Market Preparation | 13.7 | 10.4 | 14.3 | 18.1 | 13.7 | 9.7 | 6.6 | 4.9 | 8.5 | 2.5 |
| General Skills | 70.1 | 12.3 | 9.4 | 5.4 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Personal Health & Physical Education | 1.5 | 4.3 | 13.9 | 34.7 | 28.7 | 11.4 | 4.3 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.2 |
| Religion | 92.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 0.1 | # | # | 0.2 |
| Military Science | 97.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | # | # | 0.1 |
| Special Education | 94.0 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 0.2 |
| All Courses Other Than Above | 99.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | # | # | # | # | # |
† Not applicable. The inclusion/exclusion criteria used to produce the tabulations require high school graduates to have a positive number of English credits.
# Rounds to zero.
NOTE: 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 Transcript Study (HSTS), 1994.
Last updated 2 December 2005 (HM)