Special Analysis 2008

Part A. Students Who Enroll in Community Colleges Immediately After High School

Table SA-23. Percentage distribution of the spring 1992 12th-grade cohort, by immediate and delayed postsecondary enrollment status, control and type of institution, and educational plans and expectations: 1992 and 1994

		Immediate enrollment in a postsecondary institution						Delayed enrollment
			2-year institution		4-year institution
Plans and expectations	No post- secondary education through 1994¹	Total^2,3	All³	Public	All	Public	Private	Total	In 2-year institution in 1994	In 4-year institution in 1994

Total	27.9	51.4	17.0	15.7	33.6	21.9	11.7	20.7	10.6	8.3
Post-high school educational plans
Plan to get postsecondary education	13.7	65.1	19.9	18.7	44.4	28.9	15.5	21.2	10.2	9.8
Don’t plan to continue	67.1	14.3	9.2	7.5	3.6	2.4	1.2!	18.6	10.9	4.1
Don’t know or unspecified plans	56.5	21.7	13.4	12.4	7.5	5.3	2.3!	21.8	15.9	3.5
Highest educational attainment expected when in 12th-grade (1992)
Don’t know	45.7	32.2	16.2	13.3	13.5	8.7	4.9	22.1	13.2	5.8
High school diploma or less	88.5	4.8	3.6	3.1	1.0!	1.0!	‡	6.7	5.0	0.4!
Attend or complete 2-year college	60.7	22.7	16.0	12.6	3.4	2.4	1.1!	16.6	10.3	2.1
Attend or complete 4-year college	20.9	55.5	21.6	20.6	33.4	23.1	10.2	23.6	12.8	9.0
Obtain graduate degree	10.0	69.7	13.8	13.2	55.7	34.3	21.3	20.3	8.0	11.8
Highest educational attainment expected 2 years later (1994)
Don’t know	52.3	31.3	16.0	13.6	10.6	7.1	3.4!	16.4	9.4	4.1!
Attend or complete 2-year college	55.2	25.8	20.2	17.8	3.8	2.4	1.5	19.0	13.1	2.4!
Attend or complete 4-year college	24.2	51.4	23.0	21.8	27.4	20.1	7.3	24.3	13.6	8.5
Obtain graduate degree	5.7	72.5	13.4	12.4	58.9	36.6	22.3	21.9	8.7	12.5

! Interpret data with caution (estimates are unstable).
‡ Reporting standards not met (sample size too small or standard error greater than estimate).
¹ Includes some cases of students who were enrolled in postsecondary courses before high school graduation but who did not enroll in any postsecondary institution after high school.
² Total includes 12th-graders (0.8 percent) who enrolled immediately in a less-than-2-year postsecondary institution. The sample size for these students is too small to show breakouts.
³ Total includes private 2-year institutions that are not shown separately.
NOTE: Data include some cases of students who enrolled immediately in a postsecondary institution for which the control of the institution was unknown. These cases are included in the “Total” column for immediate enrollment and the “All” columns for type of institution, but they are not included in the distributions showing control of institution. Spring 1992 12th-graders who attended postsecondary institutions for which there is no IPEDS information are excluded. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding or because some subcategories are not shown.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/92), “Second Follow-up, 1992.”

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