Millions of high school graduates across the country began college last fall. Since nearly three-quarters of CPS graduates now enroll in a two- or four-year college, it’s likely that you know a few of them. It’s also likely that many won’t finish college.
Nationally, roughly 4 in 10 students who started college in the fall of 2012 had not earned a degree six years later, and white and Asian students continue to complete college at higher rates than black and Latino students. Locally, CPS students are graduating from college at slightly lower rates. The University of Chicago Consortium on School Research estimates that roughly half of CPS graduates who go off to college will not graduate from a four-year college within six years. The bachelor’s degree attainment rates for black and Latino young men in CPS are significantly lower...