The national discourse on higher education has increasingly elevated the negative impact of rising college tuition and debt. The top five education institutions with the highest enrollment of Bexar County students the year after their high school graduation — accounting for 28.2% of enrolling students — are those offering the promise of tuition support: UTSA and 4 of the Alamo Colleges. Promise programs have the potential to advance racial equity in education. Alamo Colleges' AlamoPROMISE program covers community college tuition (along with mandatory fees) for students who plan to earn an associate degree, certification, courses for transfer, or workforce training. In 2023, Alamo Colleges expanded this program to every high school senior in Bexar County.
Increase percentage of high school graduates enrolling in higher education institutions to 85% (85% by 2030)
Year | Value | Margin of Error |
---|---|---|
2010 | 51% | |
2011 | 49% | |
2012 | 48% | |
2013 | 47% | |
2014 | 49% | |
2015 | 47% | |
2016 | 45% | |
2017 | 48% | |
2018 | 48% | |
2019 | 50% | |
2020 | 47% | |
2021 | 45% | |
2022 | 49% |
High School Graduates Enrolling in Higher Education Institutions
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Bexar County School Districts and Charters
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020