Education, High school in particular...

[winterstorm_11]

So I have 40k people in my city, And some 3000 elementary students, possibly more. But my high school only has 260? Even if i build another one, which takes zero students. Why such a disparity?

[SumGumption]

Because they gave the high schoolers a brain and now they've gone woke. They are choosing not to go to school or they are dropping out because you haven't added all of the upgrades. The budget meter affects their decisions too.

[JReming]

Try adding bus and taxi stops in front. Thats what I did to boost high school and college.

[Ragond]

Pretty sure there's a bug specifically that affects the # of eligible high school students.

For me, I've got 20k, 1.5k, 30k, 15k eligible students for elementary, high school, college and university respectively. Check this in the education info panel.

Given the over-abundance of possible college students, I think the high school students are graduating REALLY fast or something.

I've got a dozen+ elementary schools, and four colleges but only one high school, which isn't even close to full.

TLDR: The education system is not intuitive.

[Overeagerdragon]

Just wait until you carefully evaluate colleges.... I have a town of 50K and some 20K are elligable for collega whereas a college can take 1500... so I'm supposed to make 10 colleges soo that just under 50% of my TOTAL population can sit in school.... adding it all up I might have 40K students....

so who's driving to work every day? Because I have a 0.2% unemployment....

[Wildmanyeah]

its not a 1-1 simulation, once you understand this, you start to wonder what even is the point, was cool 20 years ago

[Overeagerdragon]

Originally posted by Wildmanyeah:

its not a 1-1 simulation, once you understand this, you start to wonder what even is the point, was cool 20 years ago

ah well that explains why the amount of elligable college students is 10x as high as the potential highschool students...

I get there's a modicum of the surreal that's needed for videogames... but the tiering IS kinda skewed; you can't deny that... check your own city... it almost feels like they swapped the calculation for highschool and college ;)

[LJ Tech]

I also have a significantly disproportionate number of students from one school to the next. But also, why isn't there a school for small towns? Many small towns in the world have combine k-12 schools with total student bodies of less than 500 students, would make sense to have a k-12 school option in this game, it seems silly to build a school for 1,000 kids to let 20 go to school.

[mech2112]

It takes longer for them to get to that level of education, you also might want to add bus stops and other transportation close by to boost numbers it worked for me.

[SumGumption]

Originally posted by LJ Tech:

I also have a significantly disproportionate number of students from one school to the next. But also, why isn't there a school for small towns? Many small towns in the world have combine k-12 schools with total student bodies of less than 500 students, would make sense to have a k-12 school option in this game, it seems silly to build a school for 1,000 kids to let 20 go to school.

I agree. But why didn't they start us out small for all services? They went over board for starting out on all services.

[SumGumption]

Originally posted by mech2112:

It takes longer for them to get to that level of education, you also might want to add bus stops and other transportation close by to boost numbers it worked for me.

Definitely part of the incentives needed to bring them in since they are counted as part of the work force and drivers too.