Almost three-quarters of all 2007 Hamilton County high school graduates went on to attend college, up three percent from the year before, schools Superintendent Jim Scales said today.
Across the district, 72.9 percent, or 1,534 students, attended a two or four-year institution. In 2006, 70 percent went on to college, system records show.
“More and more of our students are going off to college after graduation, and this is occurring when we have a flat enrollment,” schools Superintendent Jim Scales said at a news conference at East Ridge High School.
Dr. Scales attributed the increased college-going rate to quality teachers and principals, a local high school reform effort and strong community support.
Ninety percent of Hamilton County graduates attend college in Tennessee, Dr. Scales said. The majority, 509 students, are attending Chattanooga State Technical Community College, 370 are enrolled at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and 120 attend the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
For complete details, see tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Kelli Gauthier covers K-12 education in Hamilton County for the Times Free Press. She started at the paper as an intern in 2006, crisscrossing the region writing feature stories from Pikeville, Tenn., to Lafayette, Ga. She also covered crime and courts before taking over the education beat in 2007. A native of Frederick, Md., Kelli came south to attend Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in print journalism. Before newspapers, ...
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