KITV.com - Fifty-three percent of Hawai'i's public high schools' class of 2011 enrolled in college for the fall semester, an increase of three percent over the previous years' graduating class enrollment, according to a new study released by the Hawai'i P-20 Partnerships for Education and the state Department of Education.
"Today's report is encouraging, and the upward trend in college-going rates is a positive sign for the state's economic outlook," said DOE Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi.
The University of Hawai'i remains the top choice for students, with 40 percent of the class of 2011 enrolled in one of ten UH campuses for the fall 2011 semester. This represents 80 percent of those graduates who entered college.
