New state data shows that small area school districts are fairing better at sending students to college than large city districts.  IPR’s Stephanie Wiechmann reports.

The Indiana Department of Education tracks how many Hoosier students head to college after graduation.  This year’s report shows data from 2015.  Statewide, 65 percent of students began attending college within a year of graduating from high school.

Smaller area districts exceeded the state percentage. 

In Delaware County…

• Yorktown High School sent 77 percent of students to college.
• Delta High School sent 71 percent of students.
• Daleville Jr/Sr High School sent 68 percent.

The biggest Delaware County district is Muncie Community Schools – which is one-and-a-half times the size of Delta and Yorktown and more than six times the size of Daleville.

• In 2015, Muncie sent 57 percent of its students to college.

The trend also plays out in Henry County and Madison County – with one exception.

• South Madison School Corporation, the second biggest in the county, sent the highest percentage of students to college in 2015 by far – 71 percent compared to Anderson Community Schools’ 44 percent.

State data also shows that more than half of students statewide head to one of Indiana’s public four-year universities.  Another quarter enroll at Ivy Tech Community College.