Elementry Schools and Community Schools

[cogvos]

Hi,

According to the tool tips - 'Only Children can attend an Elementry School.'

Where as a Community School - 'Allows children to get education (sic) and grow into educated adults.'

The tool tips say for a High School - 'Only teenagers can attend High School'

There does not appear to be any restriction on the age of a sim attending a Communty School, and having just placed one my unemployment went from 11% to 2%.

Given that kids don't work it looks like a Community School acts as a combined Elementry and High School.

Am I right here? I couldn't find anything about this on the net, just info on the different electricty and water consumption rates and the slider on High Schools does not go up.

[kristofburger]

Community school should just be a greener alternative to the standard elementary school, and the same applies to other education tiers (Institute of Creative Arts, Modern Technology Institute). Therefore they should all have the same age restrictions as the normal ones. If you see something in a vanilla environment that suggests otherwise, report it as a bug (note: university actually isn't restricted to young adults).

[ancienthighway]

From the Paradox Wiki:
https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Education
https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Citizens#Age

Children, teens, and seniors are not considered with calculating the labor pool and unemployment numbers. Young adults may or may not be depending on whether they go to the university or go to work.

[Tolwrath]

Through a bit of experimenting, I've found that the greener versions of the education buildings seem to all have a wider reach than their standard counterparts, which is a much better offset than just a higher expense cost with lower water/power requirements.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by ancienthighway:

From the Paradox Wiki:
https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Education
https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Citizens#Age

Children, teens, and seniors are not considered with calculating the labor pool and unemployment numbers. Young adults may or may not be depending on whether they go to the university or go to work.

+1

education has no bearing on employment.

Maybe you had complaints of uneducated workers and when you started educating them, then those jobs got filled as you increased your educated employment pool, so more people went to work?