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2007 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. Click on the column label for one of the public systems to see a chart of the data. Click on the name of a county to see a chart of the trend of college-going rates over time. Data collection for Fall 2007 is in progress. As a result, more recent data than what is displayed may be available for some systems. Visit the Custom Data Reports for the most up-to-date data. Select the year needed from the drop-down list at the top of the options. Visit the Dates Available for availability for each type of data. The Sources and Timing of Data page has an approximate schedule for each type of data the Commission collects.|
High School Graduates |
First-Time Freshmen | College-Going Rate | |||||||||
| High School County | Public | UC | CSU | CCC | Total | UC | CSU | CCC | Total | ||
| Alameda | 12,917 | 1,610 | 1,757 | 4,313 | 7,680 | 12.5% | 13.6% | 33.4% | 59.5% | ||
| Alpine * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Amador | 426 | 17 | 23 | 125 | 165 | 4.0% | 5.4% | 29.3% | 38.7% | ||
| Butte | 2,220 | 73 | 245 | 972 | 1,290 | 3.3% | 11.0% | 43.8% | 58.1% | ||
| Calaveras | 504 | 18 | 51 | 34 | 103 | 3.6% | 10.1% | 6.7% | 20.4% | ||
| Colusa | 265 | 4 | 28 | 37 | 69 | 1.5% | 10.6% | 14.0% | 26.0% | ||
| Contra Costa | 9,935 | 977 | 1,265 | 1,849 | 4,091 | 9.8% | 12.7% | 18.6% | 41.2% | ||
| Del Norte | 280 | 4 | 25 | 51 | 80 | 1.4% | 8.9% | 18.2% | 28.6% | ||
| El Dorado | 2,017 | 120 | 236 | 785 | 1,141 | 5.9% | 11.7% | 38.9% | 56.6% | ||
| Fresno | 9,588 | 341 | 1,466 | 217 | 2,024 | 3.6% | 15.3% | 2.3% | 21.1% | ||
| Glenn | 353 | 7 | 66 | 150 | 223 | 2.0% | 18.7% | 42.5% | 63.2% | ||
| Humboldt | 1,266 | 49 | 126 | 419 | 594 | 3.9% | 10.0% | 33.1% | 46.9% | ||
| Imperial | 2,071 | 88 | 167 | 1,037 | 1,292 | 4.2% | 8.1% | 50.1% | 62.4% | ||
| Inyo | 228 | 6 | 12 | 47 | 65 | 2.6% | 5.3% | 20.6% | 28.5% | ||
| Kern | 8,810 | 301 | 870 | 2,710 | 3,881 | 3.4% | 9.9% | 30.8% | 44.1% | ||
| Kings | 1,202 | 40 | 114 | 96 | 250 | 3.3% | 9.5% | 8.0% | 20.8% | ||
| Lake | 613 | 16 | 48 | 152 | 216 | 2.6% | 7.8% | 24.8% | 35.2% | ||
| Lassen | 382 | 4 | 20 | 61 | 85 | 1.0% | 5.2% | 16.0% | 22.3% | ||
| Los Angeles | 85,386 | 6,888 | 10,033 | 27,723 | 44,644 | 8.1% | 11.8% | 32.5% | 52.3% | ||
| Madera | 1,498 | 36 | 124 | 73 | 233 | 2.4% | 8.3% | 4.9% | 15.6% | ||
| Marin | 1,985 | 258 | 267 | 357 | 882 | 13.0% | 13.5% | 18.0% | 44.4% | ||
| Mariposa | 191 | 3 | 16 | 43 | 62 | 1.6% | 8.4% | 22.5% | 32.5% | ||
| Mendocino | 835 | 53 | 89 | 317 | 459 | 6.3% | 10.7% | 38.0% | 55.0% | ||
| Merced | 3,259 | 149 | 348 | 1,018 | 1,515 | 4.6% | 10.7% | 31.2% | 46.5% | ||
| Modoc | 174 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 29 | 1.7% | 6.9% | 8.0% | 16.7% | ||
| Mono | 87 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 36 | 8.0% | 9.2% | 24.1% | 41.4% | ||
| Monterey | 3,458 | 192 | 359 | 657 | 1,208 | 5.6% | 10.4% | 19.0% | 34.9% | ||
| Napa | 1,105 | 94 | 88 | 172 | 354 | 8.5% | 8.0% | 15.6% | 32.0% | ||
| Nevada | 1,249 | 57 | 82 | 276 | 415 | 4.6% | 6.6% | 22.1% | 33.2% | ||
| Orange | 29,685 | 2,496 | 3,461 | 12,011 | 17,968 | 8.4% | 11.7% | 40.5% | 60.5% | ||
| Placer | 4,129 | 228 | 517 | 1,493 | 2,238 | 5.5% | 12.5% | 36.2% | 54.2% | ||
| Plumas | 221 | 6 | 14 | 79 | 99 | 2.7% | 6.3% | 35.7% | 44.8% | ||
| Riverside | 21,736 | 1,111 | 1,699 | 5,448 | 8,258 | 5.1% | 7.8% | 25.1% | 38.0% | ||
| Sacramento | 13,498 | 837 | 1,325 | 5,630 | 7,792 | 6.2% | 9.8% | 41.7% | 57.7% | ||
| San Benito | 646 | 24 | 78 | 230 | 332 | 3.7% | 12.1% | 35.6% | 51.4% | ||
| San Bernardino | 21,995 | 1,080 | 2,335 | 3,964 | 7,379 | 4.9% | 10.6% | 18.0% | 33.5% | ||
| San Diego | 29,138 | 1,859 | 3,707 | 10,450 | 16,016 | 6.4% | 12.7% | 35.9% | 55.0% | ||
| San Francisco | 3,613 | 798 | 574 | 1,179 | 2,551 | 22.1% | 15.9% | 32.6% | 70.6% | ||
| San Joaquin | 6,594 | 258 | 598 | 2,395 | 3,251 | 3.9% | 9.1% | 36.3% | 49.3% | ||
| San Luis Obispo | 2,684 | 142 | 289 | 1,039 | 1,470 | 5.3% | 10.8% | 38.7% | 54.8% | ||
| San Mateo | 5,370 | 621 | 691 | 1,434 | 2,746 | 11.6% | 12.9% | 26.7% | 51.1% | ||
| Santa Barbara | 3,671 | 234 | 243 | 1,354 | 1,831 | 6.4% | 6.6% | 36.9% | 49.9% | ||
| Santa Clara | 14,545 | 2,051 | 1,865 | 2,799 | 6,715 | 14.1% | 12.8% | 19.2% | 46.2% | ||
| Santa Cruz | 2,535 | 172 | 235 | 154 | 561 | 6.8% | 9.3% | 6.1% | 22.1% | ||
| Shasta | 1,946 | 66 | 116 | 45 | 227 | 3.4% | 6.0% | 2.3% | 11.7% | ||
| Sierra | 45 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 8.9% | 8.9% | 11.1% | 28.9% | ||
| Siskiyou | 367 | 12 | 25 | 269 | 306 | 3.3% | 6.8% | 73.3% | 83.4% | ||
| Solano | 4,068 | 261 | 463 | 1,262 | 1,986 | 6.4% | 11.4% | 31.0% | 48.8% | ||
| Sonoma | 4,399 | 272 | 435 | 1,904 | 2,611 | 6.2% | 9.9% | 43.3% | 59.4% | ||
| Stanislaus | 5,766 | 196 | 592 | 358 | 1,146 | 3.4% | 10.3% | 6.2% | 19.9% | ||
| Sutter | 1,171 | 43 | 93 | 123 | 259 | 3.7% | 7.9% | 10.5% | 22.1% | ||
| Tehama | 682 | 6 | 45 | 95 | 146 | 0.9% | 6.6% | 13.9% | 21.4% | ||
| Trinity | 141 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 27 | 3.5% | 6.4% | 9.2% | 19.1% | ||
| Tulare | 4,487 | 151 | 406 | 291 | 848 | 3.4% | 9.0% | 6.5% | 18.9% | ||
| Tuolumne | 566 | 25 | 39 | 45 | 109 | 4.4% | 6.9% | 8.0% | 19.3% | ||
| Ventura | 8,686 | 574 | 773 | 4,457 | 5,804 | 6.6% | 8.9% | 51.3% | 66.8% | ||
| Yolo | 1,805 | 223 | 133 | 434 | 790 | 12.4% | 7.4% | 24.0% | 43.8% | ||
| Yuba | 813 | 21 | 55 | 62 | 138 | 2.6% | 6.8% | 7.6% | 17.0% | ||
| Statewide Total | 347,306 | 25,191 | 38,764 | 102,748 | 166,703 | 7.3% | 11.2% | 29.6% | 48.0% | ||
| * The numbers for Alpine County have been suppressed. | |||||||||||
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