Estimated College Enrollment Rates of Recent High School Graduates1
  Percent of Recent High School Graduates in College
Fall
2004 		Change
(in percentage points)
1994 to 1996 1996 to 1998 1998 to 2000 2000 to 2002 2002 to 2004 1994 to
2004
United States
56.2
1.7
-1.4
-7.3
0.9
-1.0
-7.3
SREB states
56.8
0.6
1.6
0.7
-0.3
0.7
3.4
SREB states as a percent of U.S.
101.1
Alabama
61.2
-4.3
-2.4
-0.1
-0.9
4.4
-3.4
Arkansas
56.1
3.3
2.2
-0.7
4.1
-0.9
8.0
Delaware
51.7
1.6
-4.1
-6.6
-2.0
-2.4
-13.4
Florida
52.9
1.1
-0.1
6.8
-2.9
-1.1
3.7
Georgia
62.7
-4.8
5.0
-1.5
-0.5
4.9
3.1
Kentucky
57.4
3.7
1.5
5.0
-0.8
-1.3
8.1
Louisiana
55.5
1.0
7.8
-3.9
-0.8
-2.3
1.9
Maryland
58.6
3.1
-1.1
-2.3
2.0
2.0
3.8
Mississippi
60.5
-5.0
-4.7
3.3
1.5
-4.1
-9.0
North Carolina
64.7
2.7
10.6
1.3
-1.7
1.0
13.8
Oklahoma
52.1
-1.8
2.7
-0.4
0.3
1.8
2.6
South Carolina
66.6
0.4
3.0
3.3
-4.9
6.4
8.2
Tennessee
63.0
-1.3
6.5
2.4
1.5
0.1
9.2
Texas
51.7
2.6
-1.5
0.2
0.3
-0.3
1.3
Virginia
58.0
1.0
1.0
-2.8
2.0
3.4
4.6
West Virginia
53.5
0.8
2.9
-0.3
1.6
-1.0
4.0
1 The rate for each state is based on the number of state residents who graduated from high school within the previous 12 months and enrolled as first-time freshmen at in-state or out-of-state colleges and universities for fall term. This number is divided by the estimated total number of graduates of public and private high schools in that state the previous academic year.
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics: Digest of Education Statistics, 1996 (1996) , 1998 (1999), 2001 (2001), 2002 (2003), 2004 (2005) and 2005 (2006) — (www.nces.ed.gov).
June 2007