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Denver’s East High School held a drive-through graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020 in front of the school on Thursday, May 28, 2020. The rate of college enrollment for the Colorado high school graduates in the previous year remained stagnant.
A new report from the Colorado Department of Higher Education shows the rate of college attendance among high school graduates has remained about the same for the last decade.
Just over 56 percent of the Class of 2019 enrolled in a two- or four-year college within a year of graduating. For comparison, the national average in 2018 was 69 percent. The college-going rate in Colorado has remained relatively flat over the past decade, even though the national rate has grown.