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Career/Technical Education Statistics (CTES)


Table H19. Enrollment of public high school students in dual credit courses taught on a high school campus or on the campus of a postsecondary institution during the 2002–03 12-month school year, by dual credit course focus and school characteristics: 2003
School characteristic Total enrollment in dual credit
courses taught on a high school
campus or campus of a
postsecondary institution
Enrollment in dual credit courses with:
An academic focus A career/technical focus
  All public high schools 1,117,100 718,800 398,300
School size
Less than 500 students 163,500 115,400 48,100
500 to 1,199 students 323,900 221,700 102,200
1,200 or more students 629,700 381,600 248,100
School locale
City 242,400 148,600 93,700
Urban fringe 452,200 284,200 168,000
Town 191,000 130,500 60,500
Rural 231,500 155,500 76,100
Region
Northeast 142,400 100,400 42,000
Southeast 184,100 140,400 43,700
Central 320,100 196,000 124,100
West 470,400 282,000 188,500
Percent minority enrollment
Less than 6 percent 300,400 199,300 101,100
6-20 percent 369,000 222,600 146,400
21-49 percent 221,700 159,100 62,500
50 percent or more 222,700 134,800 87,900

NOTE:  Enrollments include enrollments in dual credit courses taught on a high school campus or the campus of a postsecondary institution but do not include enrollment in courses taught through distance education.  Enrollments may include duplicated counts of students, since schools were instructed to count a student enrolled in multiple courses of a particular type for each course in which he or she was enrolled.  Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding or missing data.  The study sample had 29 cases for which the percent minority enrollment in the school was missing.  Those cases were included in the totals and in analyses by other school characteristics. Definitions of school characteristics and additional tables are available in the NCES report Dual Credit and Exam-Based Courses in U.S. Public High Schools: 2002–03.

SOURCE:  U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System (FRSS), “Dual Credit and Exam-Based Courses,” FRSS 85, 2003.


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