{"id":8036,"date":"2021-07-06T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:17:37","slug":"summer-melt-college-intentions-vs-college-enrollment-of-2020-school-district-of-philadelphia-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/2021\/07\/06\/summer-melt-college-intentions-vs-college-enrollment-of-2020-school-district-of-philadelphia-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Melt: College Intentions vs. College Enrollment of 2020 School District of Philadelphia Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Research finds that many high school graduates who intend to enroll in post-secondary education do not follow through with their intentions following the summer after graduation.\u00a0This brief summarizes findings from a study of the &#8220;summer melt&#8221; rates of the cohort of college-intending 2020 School District of Philadelphia (SDP) high school seniors.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The summer melt rate is the percentage of college-intending seniors who do not enroll in college their first fall after graduation. The summer melt rate for college-intending 2020 SDP high school seniors was 36.2%, which was higher than the summer melt rate for 2019 SDP high school seniors (31.5%).<\/li>\n<li>Male students, Black\/African American students, Hispanic\/Latinx students, English Learners, students receiving special education services, and students with economically disadvantaged status had higher summer melt rates than their peers but all subgroups\u2019 summer melt rates increased from 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Positive experiences with adults and school counselors are associated with lower summer melt rates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use the button to download the nine-page brief.[\/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%2F2021%2F07%2FSummer-Melt-2020-Brief-July-2021-Revised-2.pdf&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]<em>Please note that this brief was revised in July 2021. The term &#8220;guidance counselor&#8221; was changed to &#8220;school counselor&#8221; except in student responses.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brief summarizes findings from a study of the &#8220;summer melt&#8221; rates of the cohort of college-intending 2020 School District of Philadelphia (SDP) seniors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21878,"featured_media":8044,"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-8036","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\/8036","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\/21878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8108,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions\/8108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}