The proportion of CPS graduates enrolling immediately in college rose gradually to 63 percent by 2018, with persistent disparities by race/ethnicity and gender¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Around two-thirds of CPS graduates enrolled immediately in college in 2018: 42 percent in a four-year institution, 21 percent in a two-year institution, and 37 percent not immediately. → Nagaoka 2020 q2 i? The proportion of CPS graduates who did not enroll immediately in college fell 13 percentage points, from 50 percent to 37 percent, since 2007. → Nagaoka 2020

Evidence¶

Nagaoka 2020¶

Nagaoka, J., Mahaffie, S., Usher, A., & Seeskin, A. (2020). The Educational Attainment of Chicago Public Schools Students: 2019. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://toandthrough.uchicago.edu/tool/cps/2019/#/milestones

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Figure 8 takeaway from this descriptive report on immediate college enrollment of CPS graduates across 12 cohorts beginning in 2007. Immediate enrollment is defined as enrollment in the first summer or fall following high school graduation. The report notes disparities by race/ethnicity and gender have persisted.

"Around two-thirds of CPS graduates enrolled immediately in college in 2018: 42 percent enrolled immediately in a four-year institution, 21 percent enrolled immediately in a two-year institution, and 37 percent did not enroll immediately in college."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• 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 — related
• Two-thirds of CPS graduates immediately enrolled in a two- or four-year college in 2017, up from 50 percent in 2006 — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• CPS graduates' immediate college enrollment increased between 2006 and 2015, driven mainly by growth in four-year college enrollment — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Approximately 10 percent of CPS graduates accepted into a four-year college do not enroll the following fall — 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
• CPS two-year enrollment rose modestly between 2006 and 2015 but declined as a share of college-going while four-year enrollment climbed after 2013 — related
• Growth in CPS graduates' two-year enrollment was largely at City Colleges of Chicago and much of it predates the system's reform efforts — 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)
• Young women were more likely than young men to both immediately enroll in and persist through college, in both four-year and two-year colleges — related