Los Medanos College touts dual enrollment to keep high schoolers on path to higher ed

by Aly Brown, Bay City News June 1, 2024May 29, 2024

The Los Medanos College Brentwood Center campus appears in an image from video. Opened in 2021, the 55,000-square-foot facility caters to students in far eastern Contra Costa County — a region where barely half of high school graduates continue on to college. LMC is promoting its free dual enrollment program that enables high school juniors and seniors to take LMC classes at their high school campus during school hours for both high school and college credits. (Los Medanos College/YouTube)

A Los Medanos College dean reported this week that about half of East Contra Costa County’s high school graduates don’t go to college.

However, LMC, a community college with campuses in Brentwood and Pittsburg, aims to change that, said LMC dean of student success Dave Belman during a Brentwood City Council meeting Tuesday.

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