CPS immediate college enrollment rate outperforms the most recent national rate by 5 percentage points (66% vs. 61%)¶

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q2 i? CPS out-performs the most recent national college enrollment rate by 5 percentage points (66% vs. 61%). → Mahaffie 2025

Evidence¶

Mahaffie 2025¶

Mahaffie, S., Usher, A., Nagaoka, J., & McKoy, D. (2025). The Educational Attainment of Chicago Public Schools Students: 2024. To&Through Project and UChicago Consortium on School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/the-educational-attainment-of-Chicago-Public-Schools-students-2024

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Report finding comparing CPS's 66% immediate college enrollment rate with the most recent national rate of 61%, a 5-percentage-point difference in CPS's favor.

"CPS even out-performs the most recent national college enrollment rate by 5 percentage points (66% vs. 61%, respectively)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Immediate college enrollment among 2021 CPS graduates was 58.6%, with four-year enrollment recovering to pre-pandemic levels while two-year enrollment fell to 15.6% — 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 class of 2020 graduates were less likely to enroll in two-year colleges (20.0% in 2019 vs. 16.4% in 2020) — related
• CPS class of 2020 graduates enrolled in four-year colleges at rates similar to previous cohorts (41.8% in 2019 vs. 40.8% in 2020) — related
• CPS class of 2024 students reached near-record highs in high school graduation (84%) and immediate college enrollment (66%), on par with national averages — reports the opposite