About 45,000 Georgia students participated in dual enrollment last year, taking college-level classes for both college and high school credit.
If those students were all packed into one district, they would be the eighth-largest district in the state, said Jennifer Phinney, dual enrollment program specialist at the Georgia Department of Education.
“It’s a significant population of our high school students around the state,” she said. “Almost every district in Georgia participated in dual enrollment last year. That includes our state charter schools and state schools in some capacities, they had student participation in dual enrollment as well. Our largest district participating in dual enrollment is Houston County, they had 2,707 students participating in dual enrollment. Taliaferro County had our smallest dual enrollment representation, they came in with eight.”
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