More than 78 percent of MCPS Class of 2012 graduates enrolled in college within 16 months, the second highest enrollment rate in the state.
According to statistics from the Maryland Department of Education, Montgomery County’s 78.4 percent college enrollment rate is seven percentage points behind Howard County (85.6) for the best mark in the state.
The high schools with the highest Class of 2012 college enrollment rates were Wootton (88.9 percent), Poolesville (87.3 percent), Churchill (86.5 percent) and Bethesda-Chevy Chase (84.9 percent).
Bethesda-Chevy Chase also had the fourth highest college enrollment rate among African American students with 81.8 percent and Hispanic graduates with 75.8 percent. The overall MCPS enrollment rate was 74.8 percent for African American Class of 2012 graduates and 62.8 percent for Hispanic graduates.
“We have to make sure that every MCPS student who wants to go to college has the chance to do so and is ready to succeed and get their degree,” Superintendent Joshua Starr said in a press release. “We’re doing better than most, but we still have a lot of work to do.”
The overall state enrollment rate was 70 percent, and 64 percent for African American graduates and 58.9 percent for Hispanic graduates. Montgomery’s 65.3 percent enrollment rate for students on Free and Reduced Meals — an indicator of poverty — was second in the state to Howard County. The state enrollment rate for graduates on FARMS was 55.8 percent.
