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Show High Percent of Iron County High School Graduates Continue in Higher Education Approximately 64.8 of the high school graduates over the past nine years in Iron County went on to enter college col-lege at one of Utah's institutions institu-tions of . higher education. ... This fact was brough out in a Utah Foundation analysis of a study of high school graduate grad-uate and college freshmen trends in Utah prepared by the Ofice of Institutional Studies Stu-dies at the University of Utah. The Utah Foundation analysis an-alysis shows that there were 244 high school graduates in Iron County during the 1966-67 1966-67 school year compared with 149 in 1957-58. It is anticipated anticipat-ed that by 1977-78 there will be 256 students graduating from the county's high schools. The nine Utah colleges and universities report that in 1967 there were 164 entering freshmen fresh-men from Iron County. Based I on past trends it is estimated that there will be 156 entering enter-ing freshmen from Iron County Coun-ty enrolled in Utah's colleges during 1970, 145 during 1975, and 175 during 1978. r Foundation analysts point out that throughout the State of Utah the percentage of high school graduates who enroll en-roll in one of the Utah colleges col-leges averaged 51.5 during the nine-year period 1958 through 1967. This percentage excluded a small proportion of students who enroll in an out-of-state college. A 1963 study by the U. S. Office of Education indicated that approximately ap-proximately 5 of the undergraduate under-graduate students from Utah were attending a college in another state. The study shows that between be-tween 1958 and 1967 the total number of high school graduates grad-uates rose by 63. During this same period, the number entering freshmen from the state at the nine Utah colleges and universities increased by 76. j In 1958 entering freshmen from Utah enrolled at one of Utah's colleges enualed 50.9 of the preceding high school graduating class. By 1967 the percentage had risen to 55.0. Altogether, the Utah Foundation Foun-dation analysis shows that there were 9,058 entering freshmen from Utah enrolled in the Utah institutions of higher education last fall. Based on the projections in the study, it is anticipated that the entering freshmen class from Utah will reach 9,985 by 1970, 11,055 by 1975, and $11,-112 $11,-112 by 1978. |