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Secondary School Experiences and Academic Performance of Students With Mental Retardation
NCSER 2009-3020
July 2009

Table 2.  Average percentage of courses taken in a semester by students with mental retardation, overall and by parent-reported levels of cognitive functioning


  Overall High Moderate Low
Academics 49 55 46 40
Vocational education 18 14 19 21
Other nonacademics 33 31 34 39
NOTE: Percentages are population estimates based on weighted samples that range from approximately 70 to 550 across variables.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Special Education Research, National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), Wave 1 student's school program survey, 2002.