Statewide, Iowa – The number of high school students who are also taking community college courses at the same time continues to rise.
Department of Education Community Colleges Bureau Chief Amy Gieseke talks about what’s called joint enrollment.
Gieseke says you only have to take one class to be included in the headcount enrollment, so the joint enrollment credit hours are only 32 percent of statewide community college credit hours.
She adds the number of high school students joint enrolling has increased quite a bit since it started in 2010.
Gieseke says girls continue to outpace the number of high school boys joint enrolled at 54 percent.
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