Knox County aims to have 70% of high school seniors enrolled in college by 2024 –

WATE, 1/30/22

TnAchieves, a partner organization for the TN Promise scholarship program, said the college-going rate in Knox County peaked at 67.3% in 2015. Knox County’s college-going rate is at a 10-year low, with fewer than 60 percent of public high school graduates attending college immediately after high school.