In its second annual national level report, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center released benchmarks for high schools to compare their graduates’ college transition rates nationwide, including those serving low income and minority students.
A new report released today by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University; the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program; and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center finds that across the United States, only 14 percent of students starting in community colleges transfer to four-year schools and earn a bachelor’s degree within six years of entry.
Clearinghouse Transcript Ordering helps Benedictine College adapt to needs of growing student population.
Nearly one in five graduates from high-poverty, high schools graduated college within six years of finishing high school, and one in four students from low-income schools completed a college degree within six years of their high school graduation, according to the 2017 High School Benchmarks Report: National College Progression Rates.
With the real, verified story of students’ postsecondary outcomes in hand, high school administrators are empowered to make changes that will move the needle.
I became the first in my family to graduate from high school and the first to attend college. Eventually, I earned a doctorate in educational leadership with an emphasis on higher education. As a first generation college student, failure was not an option.
There is only one reliable source of college enrollment, persistence, and completion rates for your high school’s graduates – the colleges themselves and StudentTracker for High Schools.
There’s room for much improvement with the student transfer experience. Data from the Research Center provides insight to support the changes that need to be made.
Learn how Cristo Rey Network used StudentTracker for High Schools data to improve its college preparation efforts.
