College enrollment down sharply
… A mix of “alarming” but also some good news was revealed in data published last week in the College and Career Readiness Indicators Report by the Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education, which is a statewide partnership led by the Executive Office on Early Learning, the state Department of Education and the University of Hawaii system.
Following over a year of remote learning, online courses and other changes to the academic curriculum, 51 percent of Hawaii’s public school graduates from the class of 2021 went on to college in the first fall after graduation, data analyst Lloyd Grieger said during a webinar on Wednesday. This is a slight increase from the 50 percent enrollment rate seen from 2020, but is still down from the pre-pandemic rate of 55 percent, according to the report.
