{"id":12082,"date":"2022-04-26T13:25:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/?p=12082"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:18:14","slug":"summer-melt-college-intentions-vs-college-enrollment-of-2021-school-district-of-philadelphia-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/2022\/04\/26\/summer-melt-college-intentions-vs-college-enrollment-of-2021-school-district-of-philadelphia-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Melt: College Intentions vs. College Enrollment of 2021 School District of Philadelphia Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Research has found that many high school graduates who intend to enroll in post-secondary education do not follow through with their intentions. This pattern, found among 10-40% of high school graduates nationally, is known as <strong>summer melt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This brief summarizes findings from a study of the summer melt rates of the 2021 cohort of college-intending School District of Philadelphia (SDP) high school seniors.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overall, the summer melt rate for SDP 12th graders in 2020-21 was 35.9%, nearly identical to the summer melt rate for 2019-20 SDP 12th graders (36.2%). These rates are higher than pre-pandemic rates (31.5% for 2018-19 SDP 12th graders).<\/li>\n<li>As in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/2021\/07\/06\/summer-melt-college-intentions-vs-college-enrollment-of-2020-school-district-of-philadelphia-seniors\/\">previous years<\/a>, male students, students who identify as Black\/African American or Hispanic\/Latinx, students receiving special education services, and students designated as economically disadvantaged had higher summer melt rates than their peers.<\/li>\n<li>Positive experiences with adults and school counselors in high school continue to be associated with lower summer melt rates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_btn title=&#8221;CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF&#8221; style=&#8221;gradient-custom&#8221; gradient_custom_color_1=&#8221;#0b315b&#8221; gradient_custom_color_2=&#8221;#398635&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.philasd.org%2Fresearch%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F90%2F2022%2F04%2FSummer-Melt-2021-Brief-April_2022.pdf&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research has found that many high school graduates who intend to enroll in post-secondary education do not follow through with their intentions, a pattern known as &#8220;summer melt.&#8221; This brief summarizes findings from a study of the summer melt rates of the 2021 cohort of college-intending School District of Philadelphia (SDP) high school seniors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103956,"featured_media":12086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,361,392,455,288],"tags":[329,333],"class_list":["post-12082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-career","category-high-school-graduation","category-senior-exit-and-follow-up","category-summer-melt","category-surveys","tag-9-12","tag-postsecondary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12082"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12150,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12082\/revisions\/12150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}