Which high schools' graduates spread across the most colleges?

How this board is built

308 high schools publish a numbered matriculation list — where their graduates enrolled, counted, in the school's own School Profile or matriculation page. Every number on this page is copied from one of those documents.

This board is not divided by class years. Graduates add up with every class a list covers, but the colleges themselves do not: a school's graduates return to many of the same colleges year after year, so a second class adds only a few new names. The number here is the count of different colleges the school published, and the class years its list covers are printed beside it, because a list covering five classes has had more chances to name a college than a list covering one. Where a school labels its own columns, the window comes from the column the counts sit in — a list headed "the classes of 2021-2025" whose first column reads "Class of '25" is one class year, not five.

College names are matched exactly as each school printed them, against the federal name or a curated spelling. A name that could mean two colleges is left out rather than guessed, so a count here can be lower than the count on the school's own page.

What absence means

A school that is not on this page did not publish a numbered matriculation list we could read — that is all absence means here. It is never a statement about a school's graduates. Lists of acceptances (where students were admitted, not where they enrolled) are never counted in this ranking: an acceptances list runs about three times an enrollment list, so counting the two together would compare different things. Those lists are ranked on their own, separately.

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