Postsecondary Occupational Education Among Students Who Took Career and Technical Education in High School

This Data Point examines postsecondary education enrollment rates overall and in occupational areas of study, among 2013 public high school graduates as of 2016. The report uses data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:2009), which initially surveyed a nationally representative sample of grade 9 students in 2009, with follow-up surveys in 2012, 2013, and 2016 and a high school transcript collection in 2013. The analysis is based on approximately 11,600 HSLS:09 ninth-graders who graduated from public high schools by August 2013, had complete transcripts, and participated in the 2016 follow-up.