Students who take a fourth year of math in high school are 5 percent more likely to enroll and persist in college than their peers who don’t, according to a UCLA study of students in the second largest school district in the U.S.—Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)—published last month.
The study—which tracked 45,000 LAUSD students from junior year until two years after high school—also found those students also have a 5 percent higher chance of enrolling in four-year colleges.
