Decline in Male, Black and Latino Students Planning on College
Scott Jaschik
May 18, 2022
For the high school Class of 2022, they all showed declines in the percentage wanting to go to college, compared to the last class before the pandemic.
The percentage of male, Latino and Black high school seniors who want to go to college has declined in the last three years.
YouthTruth, a nonprofit, surveyed 22,000 members of the Class of 2022 and compared the results with a similar survey of the Class of 2019, the last high school class to predate the pandemic.
Among the results:
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The percentage of Latino students who want to go to college dropped from 79 percent to 71 percent.
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The percentage of Black students who want to go to college dropped from 79 percent to 72 percent.
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The percentage of all male students who want to go to college dropped from 74 percent to 67 percent.
In the Class of 2022, 76 percent of white students said they want to go to college, 79 percent of Middle Eastern or North African students said they do, and 88 percent of Asian American students do.
