For the first time, information available on the Virginia Department of Education website links individual Virginia high schools with the college enrollment and achievement of their graduates.
The reports, released last week, satisfy a requirement tied to 2009 federal stimulus money.
Across the state, estimates show 62 percent of class of 2011 graduates who earned a standard or advanced diploma are now enrolled in U.S. institutions of higher education.
In the Lynchburg area, Jefferson Forest High School, at 70 percent, has the highest rate of college enrollment by the class of 2011, followed by Brookville High School at 64 percent and E.C. Glass High School at 62 percent.
The state reports use data from the nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse, which gathers information from 3,300 institutions enrolling 93 percent of all U.S. higher education students.
The best-available-data estimates likely are underestimates, according to VDOE, but capture at least 88 percent of Virginia’s public high school graduates’ college enrollments.
In its reporting, the department of education gives enrollment statistics in terms of students enrolled in college within 16 months of graduation. Those rates may increase, because just over eight months have passed since the class of 2011 graduated.
College achievement reports for the class of 2008 show 67 percent of students who earned a standard or advanced diploma, and then enrolled in a Virginia public college or university, earned at least one year of college credit within two years of enrollment.
Like the college enrollment reports, the college achievement reports are available on the Virginia Department of Education’s website by individual high school and school division. Each contains further data on the enrollment or achievement of different school subgroups such as black, white and economically disadvantaged students.
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