Jacksonville Data

An email from one of my readers, following up on the Houston stats I sent around recently:

 

Thanks for the sobering stats from HISD. Being a former Houston TFA-er and KIPP assistant principal, I can fully appreciate the challenges they're facing.

We've done a similar analysis here in Jacksonville, and the statistics are equally horrifying. Of the 2,165 2003-04 low-income high school graduates in Duval County, only 53% continued their education in postsecondary and, of those, only 172 received an AA degree or higher in the five years following graduation. That's fewer than 8% of low-income high school graduates.

 

As bad as our public K-12 schools are doing, our community colleges are struggling even more. It's a challenge that's going to require focus at both the secondary and post-secondary levels, as well as extraordinary communications between both of these huge systems.

-- Trey Csar, President, Jacksonville Public Education Fund