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College-Going Rates by County

2006 College-Going Rates to Public Colleges and Universities

This table provides college-going rates for counties in California. College-going rates were calculated by dividing the number of entering freshmen aged 19 and younger from public high schools in the county by the total number of graduates from public high schools in the county. All categories of public high schools are covered including comprehensive schools, continuation schools, and other categories of schools. Students with unknown genders and ethnicities and those from unknown schools were excluded from the data.

Data regarding high school graduates were obtained from the California Department of Education. Data for freshmen enrollment were obtained from each of the segments.

Note that the calculation of these rates is based on totals for each category such as year, county, and ethnicity. Rates do not entail longitudinal tracking of individual students.

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  High School
Graduates 		First-Time Freshmen College-Going Rate
High School County Public UC CSU CCC Total UC CSU CCC Total
Alameda 12,312 1,663 1,581 4,276 7,520 13.5% 12.8% 34.7% 61.1%
Alpine * 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Amador 337 14 16 105 135 4.2% 4.7% 31.2% 40.1%
Butte 2,191 73 279 556 908 3.3% 12.7% 25.4% 41.4%
Calaveras 533 21 43 87 151 3.9% 8.1% 16.3% 28.3%
Colusa 261 4 25 45 74 1.5% 9.6% 17.2% 28.4%
Contra Costa 9,597 1,094 1,142 933 3,169 11.4% 11.9% 9.7% 33.0%
Del Norte 364 7 28 48 83 1.9% 7.7% 13.2% 22.8%
El Dorado 2,096 118 261 647 1,026 5.6% 12.5% 30.9% 49.0%
Fresno 10,036 372 1,380 215 1,967 3.7% 13.8% 2.1% 19.6%
Glenn 365 6 48 78 132 1.6% 13.2% 21.4% 36.2%
Humboldt 1,332 54 131 380 565 4.1% 9.8% 28.5% 42.4%
Imperial 1,791 98 112 551 761 5.5% 6.3% 30.8% 42.5%
Inyo 216 4 15 34 53 1.9% 6.9% 15.7% 24.5%
Kern 8,676 258 875 2,592 3,725 3.0% 10.1% 29.9% 42.9%
Kings 1,323 35 97 165 297 2.6% 7.3% 12.5% 22.4%
Lake 567 17 51 146 214 3.0% 9.0% 25.7% 37.7%
Lassen 379 5 23 69 97 1.3% 6.1% 18.2% 25.6%
Los Angeles 84,225 6,794 9,669 27,879 44,342 8.1% 11.5% 33.1% 52.6%
Madera 1,257 28 115 66 209 2.2% 9.1% 5.3% 16.6%
Marin 1,928 275 229 325 829 14.3% 11.9% 16.9% 43.0%
Mariposa 198 5 10 56 71 2.5% 5.1% 28.3% 35.9%
Mendocino 956 43 90 320 453 4.5% 9.4% 33.5% 47.4%
Merced 3,554 110 297 1,180 1,587 3.1% 8.4% 33.2% 44.7%
Modoc 172 2 9 11 22 1.2% 5.2% 6.4% 12.8%
Mono 129 6 28 20 54 4.7% 21.7% 15.5% 41.9%
Monterey 3,392 204 373 644 1,221 6.0% 11.0% 19.0% 36.0%
Napa 1,181 85 85 236 406 7.2% 7.2% 20.0% 34.4%
Nevada 1,401 41 81 48 170 2.9% 5.8% 3.4% 12.1%
Orange 30,150 2,502 3,228 11,405 17,135 8.3% 10.7% 37.8% 56.8%
Placer 4,096 251 475 317 1,043 6.1% 11.6% 7.7% 25.5%
Plumas 229 7 10 59 76 3.1% 4.4% 25.8% 33.2%
Riverside 20,272 1,117 1,765 4,737 7,619 5.5% 8.7% 23.4% 37.6%
Sacramento 13,097 874 1,378 4,813 7,065 6.7% 10.5% 36.7% 53.9%
San Benito 572 23 89 202 314 4.0% 15.6% 35.3% 54.9%
San Bernardino 21,208 1,104 2,129 4,506 7,739 5.2% 10.0% 21.2% 36.5%
San Diego 28,785 1,873 3,546 7,604 13,023 6.5% 12.3% 26.4% 45.2%
San Francisco 3,852 896 555 1,276 2,727 23.3% 14.4% 33.1% 70.8%
San Joaquin 7,118 273 576 2,156 3,005 3.8% 8.1% 30.3% 42.2%
San Luis Obispo 2,588 136 291 1,022 1,449 5.3% 11.2% 39.5% 56.0%
San Mateo 5,280 662 572 1,612 2,846 12.5% 10.8% 30.5% 53.9%
Santa Barbara 3,883 249 294 1,532 2,075 6.4% 7.6% 39.5% 53.4%
Santa Clara 14,888 2,080 1,824 3,193 7,097 14.0% 12.3% 21.4% 47.7%
Santa Cruz 2,409 209 269 504 982 8.7% 11.2% 20.9% 40.8%
Shasta 1,907 57 97 23 177 3.0% 5.1% 1.2% 9.3%
Sierra 35 1 5 5 11 2.9% 14.3% 14.3% 31.4%
Siskiyou 454 12 35 292 339 2.6% 7.7% 64.3% 74.7%
Solano 4,268 249 412 1,238 1,899 5.8% 9.7% 29.0% 44.5%
Sonoma 4,286 290 433 1,880 2,603 6.8% 10.1% 43.9% 60.7%
Stanislaus 5,931 200 609 1,113 1,922 3.4% 10.3% 18.8% 32.4%
Sutter 1,035 30 87 241 358 2.9% 8.4% 23.3% 34.6%
Tehama 639 13 42 49 104 2.0% 6.6% 7.7% 16.3%
Trinity 146 4 5 12 21 2.7% 3.4% 8.2% 14.4%
Tulare 4,533 144 395 1,554 2,093 3.2% 8.7% 34.3% 46.2%
Tuolumne 517 22 34 136 192 4.3% 6.6% 26.3% 37.1%
Ventura 8,009 541 734 3,887 5,162 6.8% 9.2% 48.5% 64.5%
Yolo 1,767 215 156 472 843 12.2% 8.8% 26.7% 47.7%
Yuba 788 23 70 133 226 2.9% 8.9% 16.9% 28.7%
Statewide Total 343,511 25,493 37,208 97,685 160,386 7.4% 10.8% 28.4% 46.7%
* The numbers for Alpine County have been suppressed.
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