Is it true that only 1 in 4 DPS students go to college? (Denver: landscaping, construction)

[BarryK123]

That's from one of the political ads. Wonder if it's true. If so, that's pretty poor.

[emm74]

Nope, it's double that. Still too low, of course.

Denver Public Schools is celebrating huge increases in college enrollment rates. College enrollment for the Class of 2017 was the largest in DPS history, with 2,297 graduates – 51% – enrolling in college in the fall immediately following graduation. That’s a five percentage point increase from the Class of 2016, and the largest increase in the last 12 years.

https://www.dpsk12.org/students-enro...y-signing-day/

My son's DPS charter school network has 100% acceptance to a 4 year college as their goal, and so far they've managed to achieve it every year in each of their high schools. They have a Senior Signing Day celebration where all the kids (grades 6 through 12) from the entire network attend and all of the seniors get to go up on stage and say which college they are going to be attending.

[Moonwalkr]

Usually for political ads, whatever they say will have a fine print. However these days you can say anything.

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by Moonwalkr

Usually for political ads, whatever they say will have a fine print. However these days you can say anything.

...and when all else fails, talk about the jooooooobbsss. The poor joooobbbbsss!

[abcdefg567]

When I was in highschool, a decade ago, our principal made everyone stand up in the room. Then immediately asked 1/2 to sit down.

He said that those left will be the ones to make it to graduation. (The #, not the students)

Then he asked another 1/2 to sit down (I guess jives with the 1/4 on the ad) and said that those will be the ones to start college.

Then he asked everyone to sit down but maybe 5-10 kids, and he said that, that will statistically be the number who finishes college.

Pretty much the only classmates I know of who graduated college, were all in the AP/X classes. I did, obviously.

Many of the kids were already heavily involved in their family landscaping or construction business. Many still work fast food, live in public housing developments, went to jail.

You can always look up college graduation stats and the like for the individual schools I believe. Many of the schools serve a large population who are in poverty (I think my school was 90% free/reduced lunch) but also it might not be such a negative if you understand that many of these families will expect their daughters to marry eary and the sons to work in their blue collar industry. Some of them make $80k/year as a plumber or construction.... college isn't for everyone in every industry.

[Katarina Witt]

^^I'm guessing that was a long time ago. Nowadays, the HS graduation rates in most locales are in the 70s/80s percents, a few states have graduation rates in the 90% range.

My educated guess is that what this ad is really saying is that only 25% graduate from college.

[sammy87]

Just give them more $$$$$ that will fix the problem! $$$ solves everything! But only take money from the successful people

If you cant graduate from HS its a family problem not a school problem.

25% college graduation sounds right.

[SkyDog77]

Originally Posted by Katarina Witt

^^I'm guessing that was a long time ago. Nowadays, the HS graduation rates in most locales are in the 70s/80s percents, a few states have graduation rates in the 90% range.

My educated guess is that what this ad is really saying is that only 25% graduate from college.

That would track with national data. Just over 50% of college enrolled student graduate within 6 years. If 50% of DPS students go to college and 50% of those graduate, then 25% of DPS students graduate college.

[BarryK123]

Originally Posted by Katarina Witt

Nowadays, the HS graduation rates in most locales are in the 70s/80s percents, a few states have graduation rates in the 90% range.

That's only because high school has been so dumbed down.

[abcdefg567]

https://chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2018/...-improvements/

For the past 4 ish years less than 70% of students have even graduated high school on time.

If 70% of that number attempts college based on data from elsewhere that means about 1/2 began college and 1/4 would be the college graduation rate like others think, I'd assume.