High school no people

[d00kie]

Hey, so I have around 5k ppl now and elementary school has 600 ppl and so is college but for some reason I have only 20 ppl in high school. Does any1 know what am I doing wrong or is it a bug?

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

No one knows. No answers from CO either. They did increase the effective range of the schools some, but the high schools still sit there almost unused. A dozen grade schools each with 1,500 students, but maybe 100 high school students even though at least a dozen elementary school should feed into it.
I don't think Colossal Order knows anything about schools. Where are the middle or junior high schools? Elementary right into an empty high school? Well, maybe one in fifty or so students go on to high school. But yet I have more college and university students than that...
It's just all hopelessly broken.

[d00kie]

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

No one knows. No answers from CO either. They did increase the effective range of the schools some, but the high schools still sit there almost unused. A dozen grade schools each with 1,500 students, but maybe 100 high school students even though at least a dozen elementary school should feed into it.
I don't think Colossal Order knows anything about schools. Where are the middle or junior high schools? Elementary right into an empty high school? Well, maybe one in fifty or so students go on to high school. But yet I have more college and university students than that...
It's just all hopelessly broken.

ah ok, so Its not just me.. ty :)

[derBieber80]

taxes to high, the people need the money to make step by step better => step 1 small inhabitants dosnt goes to college you know

[d00kie]

Originally posted by derBieber80:

taxes to high, the people need the money to make step by step better => step 1 small inhabitants dosnt goes to college you know

which taxes? i have residential on 9%
And I have been running this map for quite some time, there are lots of ppl in elemetary and in college but in high school just 20-30 ppl

[Billy Lee]

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

No one knows. No answers from CO either. They did increase the effective range of the schools some, but the high schools still sit there almost unused. A dozen grade schools each with 1,500 students, but maybe 100 high school students even though at least a dozen elementary school should feed into it.
I don't think Colossal Order knows anything about schools. Where are the middle or junior high schools? Elementary right into an empty high school? Well, maybe one in fifty or so students go on to high school. But yet I have more college and university students than that...
It's just all hopelessly broken.

with their speed in solving problems and their attention to them, schools may face resolution quite... late very late

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

The moders will fix it. Like they did C:S. That game was pretty raw on release, but so much better than this travesty.

[User]

I know teens can go to college so maybe they are skipping highschool? Just throwing this out there.

[mikelleh63]

It appears people moving in just dont bring teens. The HS demand does go up eventually, but there is always greater demand for elementary.

[GnuHorn]

I have the same issue. Hmm... I wonder if it has to do with the tendency to build early game industry, which doesn't require higher education levels.

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

I don't know about the entire world, but in most Western countries, you must attend school until you're 16. !8 in some places. Either way, you're in high school at 14 until 16. Even if every single student dropped out at 16 and went to work, why are there still only about 1% of students going to high school?
And how do you get higher educated citizens if 1% go to high school? How many graduate? Why are more citizens in college and/or uni?
This makes no sense. At all.
Broken, broken, broken. The original game made FAR more sense and logic.
It's like the CO crew were surreptitiously force-fed mushrooms and LSD the entire time they developed this mess.

[Rondaxen]

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

No one knows. No answers from CO either. They did increase the effective range of the schools some, but the high schools still sit there almost unused. A dozen grade schools each with 1,500 students, but maybe 100 high school students even though at least a dozen elementary school should feed into it.
I don't think Colossal Order knows anything about schools. Where are the middle or junior high schools? Elementary right into an empty high school? Well, maybe one in fifty or so students go on to high school. But yet I have more college and university students than that...
It's just all hopelessly broken.

get a life, man.

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

Originally posted by Rondaxen:

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

No one knows. No answers from CO either. They did increase the effective range of the schools some, but the high schools still sit there almost unused. A dozen grade schools each with 1,500 students, but maybe 100 high school students even though at least a dozen elementary school should feed into it.
I don't think Colossal Order knows anything about schools. Where are the middle or junior high schools? Elementary right into an empty high school? Well, maybe one in fifty or so students go on to high school. But yet I have more college and university students than that...
It's just all hopelessly broken.

get a life, man.

This is my life. Until the robotic or cyber spines are available, or mine miraculously heals, living in front of a monitor is my life.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by mikelleh63:

It appears people moving in just dont bring teens. The HS demand does go up eventually, but there is always greater demand for elementary.

Yep. If you check your demographics you'll probably find your teens are in single figure percentages. Seems like the only cims that move in to your city are either single adults or families with children, which means the only way you get teens is by waiting for children in the city to grow up, which takes a while. In theory it'd balance itself out over time, assuming you stopped zoning new residential.

Originally posted by lol_wut:

I know teens can go to college so maybe they are skipping highschool? Just throwing this out there.

They can't go to college without graduating high school; a cim needs the prior level of education to be eligible for the next level.

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

And how do you get higher educated citizens if 1% go to high school?

Most adults moving to your city already have a high school education.

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

Originally posted by archonsod:

Originally posted by mikelleh63:

It appears people moving in just dont bring teens. The HS demand does go up eventually, but there is always greater demand for elementary.

Yep. If you check your demographics you'll probably find your teens are in single figure percentages. Seems like the only cims that move in to your city are either single adults or families with children, which means the only way you get teens is by waiting for children in the city to grow up, which takes a while. In theory it'd balance itself out over time, assuming you stopped zoning new residential.

I haven't zoned ANYTHING for over two days, and almost two years in game time.

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

And how do you get higher educated citizens if 1% go to high school?

Originally posted by mikelleh63:

Most adults moving to your city already have a high school education.

There are no outside connections. No one can move in. It has been that way for about two years in game time.
Still have 200 or 300 high school students in six high school and approximately 20,000 elementary school students in 15 elementary schools, around 1,000 college and 200 university students.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

I haven't zoned ANYTHING for over two days, and almost two years in game time.

No idea how long it takes a child to become a teen, but from what I've seen so far it's more than a year.

There are no outside connections. No one can move in. It has been that way for about two years in game time.

Once a cim is high school educated they're eligible for college up until they become seniors, and any college educated cim is eligible for university for the same period. There's a periodic check for any eligible cim to see if they'll remain employed (or unemployed as the case may be) or attempt education influenced by the availability of jobs calling for that level of education plus a random factor.
Deleting the outside connection doesn't stop cims moving in to your city; they still spawn on the connection point, get assigned a residence and an employment or education spot. They'll eventually be despawned once the game realises they're stuck, but until that point they'll still be counted in the figures.