Source: Authors’ calculations from KPS and Kalamazoo Promise administrative data.

Notes: Numbers represent authors’ calculations of the number of graduates receiving high school diplomas (excluding alternative education programs) from Kalamazoo Public Schools and eligibility for the Promise. We determine eligibility (a tuition subsidy of at least 65 percent) based on residence and continuous enrollment from KPS records. See text for eligibility assignment rules. For 2003-2005, the numbers in parentheses indicate the number of students who would (would not) have fulfilled eligibility requirements, even though the Promise did not yet exist. The lower graduate count in 2005 is in large part due to the alternative high school being closed that year.