In almost every Chicago community area, more than 50 percent of 2019 graduates enrolled immediately in college, while 16 percent of high schools had enrollment rates below 50 percent¶
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q2 i? Immediate college enrollment exceeded 50 percent in almost every community area; by high school, 21 of 124 schools had rates below 50 percent and four schools exceeded 90 percent, though no community area exceeded 80 percent. → McKoy 2021
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McKoy 2021¶
McKoy, D., Usher, A., Nagaoka, J., & Khatri, S. (2021). Approaching Chicago student attainment from a community perspective. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://toandthrough.uchicago.edu/tool/cps/comm
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Descriptive analysis of immediate two- or four-year college enrollment for 2019 CPS graduates by community area versus high school. The report adds that about 16 percent of high schools (21 of 124) had enrollment rates below 50 percent, four high schools exceeded 90 percent, and no community area exceeded 80 percent.
"In almost every community area in Chicago, more than 50 percent of 2019 high school graduates enrolled in a two-year or four-year college immediately after graduating from high school."
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Related Claims¶
- Two-thirds of CPS graduates immediately enrolled in a two- or four-year college in 2017, up from 50 percent in 2006 — related
- Immediate college enrollment declined from 62 percent for the CPS class of 2019 to 58 percent for the class of 2020, driven more by the drop in two-year than four-year enrollment — related
- CPS graduates' immediate college enrollment increased between 2006 and 2015, driven mainly by growth in four-year college enrollment — related
- The proportion of CPS graduates enrolling immediately in college rose gradually to 63 percent by 2018, with persistent disparities by race/ethnicity and gender — related
- The CPS four-year college enrollment rate rose from 33 percent in 2006 to 42 percent in 2014, slightly below the national rate — related
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In almost every Chicago community area, more than 50 percent of 2019 graduates enrolled immediately in college, while 16 percent of high schools had enrollment rates below 50 percent |
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In almost every Chicago community area, more than 50 percent of 2019 graduates enrolled immediately in college, while 16 percent of high schools had enrollment rates below 50 percent |
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2021 |
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2024 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-09 |
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1 — mckoy-2021 |
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