The patch, and High Schools

[Angelhearth]

Nah, didn't really work, at least not on an old save. It quintippled the number of students, from around 100 to a little over 500, in a city with a population of 65,000, but the Elementaries still have 3,600, the colleges 1,600, and the University 2,000. All of those numbers tell me that the High Schools should probably be around 2,500, maybe even more, as there are normally way more High School students than College students,s or University students. So, no, it didn't work.

[Spill]

Fully possible they go pretty much straight from elemntary to college. Seems to be a random factor to how fast they graduate. Think I read in a tooltip or in game somewhere. Something that implies this.
That or new arrivles have High school already

[Evelyn]

Originally posted by likea357:

you might be right an endgame not many highschhols but wont anyrthing grow on new lands callin it end game cause wont anything grow but low resideintial crazy im guesing the high schools have somthin to do with it

Someone else said they increased their production industry and it increased their high density demand. I haven't tested it out yet but might be worth looking into!

[The Quiet Cab]

High schools are not bugged. College and Uni's were. They got patched.

@High schools: Teens are an age group with a short lifespan.
First: You don't have many the first 2-3 years.
Second: A teen can decide to work too. High school is not mandatory to them.
Third: Follow a citizen or a family with kids. Citizen have a longer lifespan than in CS2. I followed a family with kids from the beginning. Took more than 1,5 years and they're still kids.

If you build often on pause, this stops time and simulation. It takes LONG for a citizen now to age.

[mpmivo]

City population: 29632
Elementary schools : 3x (full)
High school : 90%
College : 1x full 1x 25%
University : 1x full
Technical University : 10%
Economy type: 7000 office and will increase, 5000 industry and will decrease
Importing : everything exept furniture for offices, papers, processors, electronics
Export : software, finance services, telecomunication services, marketing, travel agency services, electricity services, leisure services
Profits : 100% of city budget
PS: not every citizen is interested in what you want them to do, you need buildings to increase their willingness to study.
If you zone fast, bad for you.

[Evelyn]

Originally posted by Uffty:

High schools are not bugged. College and Uni's were. They got patched.

@High schools: Teens are an age group with a short lifespan.
First: You don't have many the first 2-3 years.
Second: A teen can decide to work too. High school is not mandatory to them.
Third: Follow a citizen or a family with kids. Citizen have a longer lifespan than in CS2. I followed a family with kids from the beginning. Took more than 1,5 years and they're still kids.

If you build often on pause, this stops time and simulation. It takes LONG for a citizen now to age.

Thanks for this, I'm gonna try playing without pause for a while and see if this works out my own problems. I seem to almost ALWAYS have a ton of elementary students and none of the later years.

[CaPY]

I have 7x more university students than high school students. That ♥♥♥♥ is broken!

[archonsod]

Originally posted by CaPY:

I have 7x more university students than high school students. That ♥♥♥♥ is broken!

Not really. I'm guessing your city also has 7x more adults than teens?

[Angelhearth]

Originally posted by archonsod:

Originally posted by CaPY:

I have 7x more university students than high school students. That ♥♥♥♥ is broken!

Not really. I'm guessing your city also has 7x more adults than teens?

Why is it that someone refuses to acknoweledge that high schools are broken in CSII? Almost everything else is broken (yes, it is, or haven't you noticed the weekly patch on Thursdays, where they desperately try to fix the problems?), so why hold high schools sacred? No matter what size city I make, the high schools will always have far fewer eligble students than elementary (reasonable), colleges (unreasonable), and universities (totaly unreasonable).

[Raphx]

after an update you need restart a neuw game ,no old sav

[archonsod]

Originally posted by Angelhearth:

Why is it that someone refuses to acknoweledge that high schools are broken in CSII?

Because I've yet to see anyone with any evidence to suggest they are broken. In fact every time I've seen this come up guess what, city demographics show the teens are in the single figure percentage. Or in other words, they're literally asking why their city with it's 100 teenagers only has 100 students at high school. Shouldn't really take a high school education to work that one out.

No matter what size city I make, the high schools will always have far fewer eligble students than elementary (reasonable), colleges (unreasonable), and universities (totaly unreasonable).

Which is unreasonable why? Are you familiar with how the education system works?

[Magic]

It's not high school or any school is bugged it's actully EVERY school bugged. If you follow on a kid from elementary school, you will notice they typically spend much more time graduate from elementary school (about 18 months), and spend much less time (usually 1-2 months) finish every other kinds, and it has nothing to do with the stats on info panel. So if 1) your city ceased to expansion, apparently you will have more new borns in population which leads to insane amount of requirement of elementary schools. If you are 2) at expansion stage, since the move-in are adults they will require only college/universities, although there's still more eligible for elementary school. This explains why you have so poor number of eligible in high school cause 1) children are basically stuck in elementary schools and they graduate from high school REAL fast, for case 2) they are adults they can't enroll in high school. So instead of complaining high school is broken you should complain the whole education system is broken and CO isn't fixing this:(

[Magic]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/high-school-eligibility-is-way-too-low-90k-population-and-only-1-high-school-needed.1604590/
At this thread you can clearly seen people post screenshot that prove my statement. From my part I haven't seriously observe a kid enrolling in elementary school until graduate from university. BUT I did observed a kid in elementary from June (remember, thiss kid enrolled before and I don't have precise track on that date) and he didn't get graduate even on the December for the next year. Then the save got so lagged and I just abandoned it.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by magic:

If you follow on a kid from elementary school, you will notice they typically spend much more time graduate from elementary school (about 18 months), and spend much less time (usually 1-2 months) finish every other kinds, and it has nothing to do with the stats on info panel.

I've generally seen them graduate within the time the school claims. Are you sure you're looking at them actually graduating (i.e. education level increases) and not aging into teens (which is unrelated to graduation)?
Though they can fail to graduate up to three times before they're locked out. Child cims will generally use all three attempts if necessary because they can't be employed; with teen and adult cims they tend to look for a job after they fail to graduate, so only immediately retry education if they can't find a suitable job.

since the move-in are adults they will require only college/universities

They're not only adults.

This explains why you have so poor number of eligible in high school

It's down to the low number of teens. Which in turn seems to be because the only way to get a teen in your city is to have a child grow up - from what I can see you can have families with children move in to your city, though I've never seen one with teen offspring do so.

[Wyrm]

I have a constant lack of "Educated" cims. Probably because adults move in with various education and the educated ones go to college or uni while the uneducated and poorly educated adults are stuck as such... I see the "Lack of skilled workers" all over my city because of this...

[Magic]

Originally posted by archonsod:

Originally posted by magic:

If you follow on a kid from elementary school, you will notice they typically spend much more time graduate from elementary school (about 18 months), and spend much less time (usually 1-2 months) finish every other kinds, and it has nothing to do with the stats on info panel.

I've generally seen them graduate within the time the school claims. Are you sure you're looking at them actually graduating (i.e. education level increases) and not aging into teens (which is unrelated to graduation)?
Though they can fail to graduate up to three times before they're locked out. Child cims will generally use all three attempts if necessary because they can't be employed; with teen and adult cims they tend to look for a job after they fail to graduate, so only immediately retry education if they can't find a suitable job.

since the move-in are adults they will require only college/universities

They're not only adults.

This explains why you have so poor number of eligible in high school

It's down to the low number of teens. Which in turn seems to be because the only way to get a teen in your city is to have a child grow up - from what I can see you can have families with children move in to your city, though I've never seen one with teen offspring do so.

If you followed the kid, they will notice you when they enroll or graduate. And I actually got so confused by the eligible number so I basically followed him everywhere. Besides that, I can even tell you that kid is only present for like 2-3 months for a year (or maybe days, whatever), and the rest time hes just idling at home and doing nothing. I also checked the school, it says average graduate time is 6 months, and the kid's home isn't very far from the school he can normally made it on foot at around 10:00-11:00 so there is no any reasonable issue he delayed graduate.
Just check the thread, screenshots won't lie. Nobody will bother to PS their photos just to make a lie about why this game is broken.