About three in five Californians enroll in college just after high school. 

Recent data show that just over 62% of the 435,000 students who graduated from high school in spring 2020 enrolled in college within 12 months, down from a recent peak of 67% in 2017–18.

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Enrollment rates are below average for low-income (54%) and English Learner students (42%).

Just over half (55%) of Black and Latino graduates enrolled in college, compared to 68% of white students and 86% of Asian students. Women (nearly 68%) are significantly more likely to enroll than men (57%).

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College enrollment rates were highest among graduates from the Bay Area (72%), and lowest in the Inland Empire and San Joaquin Valley (53%). Southern California (67%), the Central Coast (also 67%), and the far north (59%) were close to the statewide average.

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Whether and where students go to college varies regionally and demographically

SOURCES: California Department of Education, College-Going Rate (CGR) data; National Student Clearinghouse (NSC).

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NOTES: “All Students” includes students who graduate from a California public high school with a regular diploma as well as non-graduate completers—students with GEDs and other similar certificates, but not those who receive Special Education Certificates of Completion.

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Student information is unavailable in some cases due to privacy rights. Regions are based on the grouping of counties in the 2020 census.

원문링크 : College Access in California - Public Policy Institute of California (ppic.org)