Kids won't go to highschool

[seven_stars]

I have over 40k in Elementary and 10k of available highschool, but never get above about 2k going to HS. College and University have about 10k each and are utilised 50 to 100%.
What is happening to highschool? Just another bug? of many I know.

[Daveyboy]

I'm same, but the reason is there's hardly any teens.
For some reason only adults, and possibly families with young children move in. Very few with teenage kids.
Because the aging process is quite slow, it means it takes a very long time for those children to become teens, or for new kids to be born and grow into teens.
When I check the population stats my teenager pop is usually only around 1-2%.
My current city has just under 80,000 residents. I need maybe around 5 or 6 elementary schools, several colleges and 2 universities yet the only high school is only about a quarter full.
At some point I'm guessing all those kids will become teens and I'll need to suddenly build another 10 high schools, but it hasn't happened for me yet after just over 2 in game years.

[sams19]

but theres patch notes about this. Surely the devs would never lie about features.

[ArmedGhost-]

Originally posted by seven_stars:

I have over 40k in Elementary and 10k of available highschool, but never get above about 2k going to HS. College and University have about 10k each and are utilised 50 to 100%.
What is happening to highschool? Just another bug? of many I know.

Do you have districts zoned and those schools assigned to the districts you want?

Best to zone out your city and assign schools to specific districts rather than having the game automatically determine where kids should go.

Had the same issue with a university, that had only 50 students. As soon as I assigned it to districts it started filling up quickly.

[seven_stars]

Originally posted by Uncle_Festus:

Originally posted by seven_stars:

I have over 40k in Elementary and 10k of available highschool, but never get above about 2k going to HS. College and University have about 10k each and are utilised 50 to 100%.
What is happening to highschool? Just another bug? of many I know.

Do you have districts zoned and those schools assigned to the districts you want?

Best to zone out your city and assign schools to specific districts rather than having the game automatically determine where kids should go.

Had the same issue with a university, that had only 50 students. As soon as I assigned it to districts it started filling up quickly.

Definitely something I will try, thanks. The game certainly not optimized well to do it on its own.

[Septumplastik]

Originally posted by seven_stars:

Originally posted by Uncle_Festus:

Do you have districts zoned and those schools assigned to the districts you want?

Best to zone out your city and assign schools to specific districts rather than having the game automatically determine where kids should go.

Had the same issue with a university, that had only 50 students. As soon as I assigned it to districts it started filling up quickly.

Definitely something I will try, thanks. The game certainly not optimized well to do it on its own.

Many things may factor into this, for example time and cost to get to a school seems to be a factor. I built a cluster of 3 elementary schools on the outskirts of town, connected with rail, subway and bus. But they didn't fill up at all, 2 stayed empty and one got like 500 students. Then I developed the area around them with lots of housing and suddenly they started filling up.
So it was likely just not viable to get there for the people in other parts of town.

[girlaroundthecorner]

I read somewhere that kids sometimes prefer to work rather than go to high school. I rarely have more than 200 in high school, but also read that you need one. Colleges, Universities, Medical and Technical do much better. Have two colleges atm. Also public transport helps a lot. Buses, trains and subways.

[ArmedGhost-]

Originally posted by Septumplastik:

Originally posted by seven_stars:

Definitely something I will try, thanks. The game certainly not optimized well to do it on its own.

Many things may factor into this, for example time and cost to get to a school seems to be a factor. I built a cluster of 3 elementary schools on the outskirts of town, connected with rail, subway and bus. But they didn't fill up at all, 2 stayed empty and one got like 500 students. Then I developed the area around them with lots of housing and suddenly they started filling up.
So it was likely just not viable to get there for the people in other parts of town.

oh yeah. I forgot about this. Schools either have to be close to the district or have a mode of public transportation.

[wilsmith24]

Yeah this is strange for any game, No High schooling very little. From grade school straight to college or is everyone dropping out of school after the 6th grade?. also dont forget about babies are running the household and complaining the rent is too high, NO ♥♥♥♥, babies dont work. Much of the complain the rent is to high are kids he of the households

[seven_stars]

Originally posted by Septumplastik:

Originally posted by seven_stars:

Definitely something I will try, thanks. The game certainly not optimized well to do it on its own.

Many things may factor into this, for example time and cost to get to a school seems to be a factor. I built a cluster of 3 elementary schools on the outskirts of town, connected with rail, subway and bus. But they didn't fill up at all, 2 stayed empty and one got like 500 students. Then I developed the area around them with lots of housing and suddenly they started filling up.
So it was likely just not viable to get there for the people in other parts of town.

I don't think this is my issue. I have over 10 HS around. most on public transit. I have 17k teens in my town and only 2.5k eligible for HS? and I have 2.4K in school. So that means that over 14k teens are not eligible for HS?

[Danger Girl Forever]

Originally posted by wilsmith24:

Yeah this is strange for any game, No High schooling very little. From grade school straight to college or is everyone dropping out of school after the 6th grade?. also dont forget about babies are running the household and complaining the rent is too high, NO ♥♥♥♥, babies dont work. Much of the complain the rent is to high are kids he of the households

LMAO I had dogs complaining rent was too high. I propose we allow dogs to pay rent with treats and bones :)

[ArmedGhost-]

Originally posted by Danger Girl Forever:

Originally posted by wilsmith24:

Yeah this is strange for any game, No High schooling very little. From grade school straight to college or is everyone dropping out of school after the 6th grade?. also dont forget about babies are running the household and complaining the rent is too high, NO ♥♥♥♥, babies dont work. Much of the complain the rent is to high are kids he of the households

LMAO I had dogs complaining rent was too high. I propose we allow dogs to pay rent with treats and bones :)

Dogs are out on the grind like the rest of us. lmao