Fewer than half of California’s college-ready high-school graduates enroll as freshmen at four-year public colleges, and only about one-eighth of the students who entered a California high school in the fall of 2000 matriculated at one of the campuses of the University of California or California State University Systems after graduating, according to a report released today by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access and at the University of California system’s All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity.

California students face significant roadblocks to college, the report says. Among them are short supplies of high-school counselors, of high-school teachers who are properly trained for college-preparatory courses, and of college-preparatory courses themselves. The report provides statewide data, such as information about each high school’s graduation and college-enrollment rates, and breakdowns of information by legislative districts.