High Minority Enrollment, High School Lunch-Rates: Predisposition to College

Changes in K-12 school demographics foreshadow continued change for postsecondary institutions that recruit students from increasingly diverse backgrounds. This research tested the adequacy of a general model in predicting college predisposition among students of diverse ethnicities at schools characterized by high minority enrollments and high proportions of participation in subsidized school lunch programs. Results suggest that models using broadly aggregated student data may overlook important distinctions in college predisposition related to ethnicity, gender, and school experience.