While Hawai‘i’s public high school Class of 2020 achieved the highest on-time graduation rate ever recorded with 86 percent of students graduating on time, it also experienced the steepest decline in college enrollment over one year, with 50 percent for the Class of 2020 enrolling in college immediately after graduation, as compared to 55 percent for the Class of 2019. Disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic started in March of 2020; the same time that Hawai‘i’s public high school seniors were entering their final quarter of the school year. READ MORE.