No "educated" people but have all other education levels

[Inferior Peduncle]

I have a city where I have uneducated people well educated sims and highly educated sims but have a 0% educated sim percentage? is it because of real time and realistic pop?

[kristofburger]

If your city has good elementary and high school coverage with enough capacity, educated citizens will reduce to virtually nothing because people won't drop out. Your uneducated population is all adults who aren't eligible for any schools.

[bgnewhouse]

"Your uneducated population is all adults who aren't eligible for any schools."

Actually, it also includes children (who aren't old enough to have graduated from grade school)

[Dimensional One]

The way to fix this problem is always starve out your high school eligible.
Elementary schools students will always go to high school making them "well educated" students leaving you with very little "educated" population to pool from.

elementary = educated
high school = well educated
University = highly educated

I always keep my high school educated about 1200-1400 behind and then place a high school down. Cities vanilla university has certain range and you can tell where about that is if you place any building by the smiley faces. Give EXCELLENT even abundant coverage with elementary schools and university's and maintain the high school level students.

Even if you use policies to keep people choosing work over school it only stops them from going to university and higher education so it's not so easy to maintain uneducated or educated workforce doing it that way. good luck

ANOTHER thing I do which is tough to do unless your'e cheating a little bit $$$ wise, is when you unlock the HIGH DENSITY zoning, ABANDON AND DESTROY low density commercial entirely. PRE-PLAN to have a mix of regular industrial and a small amount of 4.0 industrial.

You'll notice that LowD commercial often cheats us when changing levels by changing the numbers of the educated/well/high educated worker needs and we end up with a sudden over/under educated workforce that isn't where it needs to be. When LD commerical levels up to max, it sticks it to us and makes our workers mismatched the COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL demand for education levels. By going full HD commercial and starting over basically, it dramatically solves this problem.
BUT do it slowly with buildings that have large numbers of over educated because its a chore and if theres only 1 or 2 just live with it for a while. That way when you rezone all HD commerical you aren't starved for a well/highly educated workforce and people will repopulate Commercial/Industrial/Business types by their education level and you won't be stuck with such a hodge podge of over/under educated. You can do this concept with INDUSTRIAL with standard and farm/forestry/oil/coal... It's work though. But worth it for me.

[The Engineer Pop]

Originally posted by Dimensional One:

The way to fix this problem is always starve out your high school eligible.
Elementary schools students will always go to high school making them "well educated" students leaving you with very little "educated" population to pool from.

elementary = educated
high school = well educated
University = highly educated

I always keep my high school educated about 1200-1400 behind and then place a high school down. Cities vanilla university has certain range and you can tell where about that is if you place any building by the smiley faces. Give EXCELLENT even abundant coverage with elementary schools and university's and maintain the high school level students.

Even if you use policies to keep people choosing work over school it only stops them from going to university and higher education so it's not so easy to maintain uneducated or educated workforce doing it that way. good luck

ANOTHER thing I do which is tough to do unless your'e cheating a little bit $$$ wise, is when you unlock the HIGH DENSITY zoning, ABANDON AND DESTROY low density commercial entirely. PRE-PLAN to have a mix of regular industrial and a small amount of 4.0 industrial.

You'll notice that LowD commercial often cheats us when changing levels by changing the numbers of the educated/well/high educated worker needs and we end up with a sudden over/under educated workforce that isn't where it needs to be. When LD commerical levels up to max, it sticks it to us and makes our workers mismatched the COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL demand for education levels. By going full HD commercial and starting over basically, it dramatically solves this problem.
BUT do it slowly with buildings that have large numbers of over educated because its a chore and if theres only 1 or 2 just live with it for a while. That way when you rezone all HD commerical you aren't starved for a well/highly educated workforce and people will repopulate Commercial/Industrial/Business types by their education level and you won't be stuck with such a hodge podge of over/under educated. You can do this concept with INDUSTRIAL with standard and farm/forestry/oil/coal... It's work though. But worth it for me.

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I think subscribing Dropout mod (which makes some of students be flunked from their schools) is better than deliberately depriving the chance of education...