Including spring first-time enrollees changes CPS graduates' immediate college enrollment rates by no more than two percentage points in any cohort¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2027: local conditions change quickly

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q2 i? Including spring enrollees did not change the bachelor's-degree-granting-institution enrollment rate by more than two percentage points for any of the 16 reported cohorts. → Mahaffie 2024 q2 i? Including spring enrollees raised the 2021 community college enrollment rate from 16% to 17%; spring community college enrollment peaked at 6% in 2009. → Mahaffie 2024 (2)

Evidence¶

Mahaffie 2024¶

Mahaffie, S., Nagaoka, J., & Usher, A. (2024). Measuring Patterns of Immediate and Continued College Enrollment among CPS Graduates. University of Chicago Consortium on School Research and the To&Through Project. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/measuring-patterns-of-immediate-and-continued-college-enrollment-among-CPSs-graduates

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Descriptive analysis of NSC enrollment data for CPS graduates from the classes of 2005–21, comparing enrollment rates with and without spring first-time enrollees in bachelor's degree granting institutions. The authors report the inclusion "did not meaningfully impact the trend" across 16 cohorts.

"The inclusion of spring enrollees in the college enrollment rate did not meaningfully impact the trend and did not change the rate by more than two percentage points for any of the 16 cohorts of graduates for which we reported college enrollment data."

Mahaffie 2024 (2)¶

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Descriptive analysis of NSC data for CPS graduates. Among 2021 graduates, 1% of first enrollments were spring starts at community colleges versus 16% fall starts; adding spring enrollees raised the rate "from 16% to 17%". The authors note spring community college enrollment peaked at 6% in 2009. No effect size is printed for this descriptive difference.

"Inclusion of spring enrollees in the immediate college enrollment rate thus increased the 2021 community college enrollment rate from 16% to 17% (see Figure 2)."

Discussion¶

Spring first-time college enrollees differ from fall enrollees in race/ethnicity, gender, and high school GPA, but the impact on group enrollment rates is small

Page metadata

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`type`	`claim`
`id`	`spring-enrollees-inclusion-small-enrollment-rate-change`
`title`	`Including spring first-time enrollees changes CPS graduates' immediate college enrollment rates by no more than two percentage points in any cohort`
`description`	`Including spring first-time enrollees changes CPS graduates' immediate college enrollment rates by no more than two percentage points in any cohort`
`status`	`review`
`evidence_strength`	`moderate`
`newest_evidence`	`2024`
`recheck_by`	`2027`
`generated`	by `process:wiki-ingest` on `2026-10-09`
`trust`	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
`sources`	2 — `mahaffie-2024`, `mahaffie-2024-2`

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