The CLP Dual Enrollment Access Gap Tool is a free resource to help college and high school practitioners identify gaps in dual enrollment access by age/grade level and race/ethnicity. The tool compares dual enrollment student participation with the school’s student population, providing results by age/grade level and race/ethnicity. This is one way for partnerships to look at and begin addressing equity gaps in access to dual enrollment.

High School and DuE participation by age-grade

“Completing the tool with our high school partners has highlighted our persistent equity gaps and opened up conversations about equitable program design and strategy.”

Sarah Peterson, Early College Credit Manager
Diablo Valley College

How it works

The tool is pre-loaded with high school and community college data that are publicly available from the California Department of Education and the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. Current data is from the 2022-23 year. An updated tool with 2023-24 data will be available in fall 2024.

To take full advantage of the access gap tool, you’ll need to input some data on the number of high school students who participated in dual enrollment in 2022-23, disaggregated by high school, age/grade level and race/ethnicity. (This disaggregated information isn’t available through public data sources.)

Even if you don’t have access to high school student participation data, you can still use the tool and view a limited set of reports. Preview the full set of reports.

Get started

Complete this form to request a copy of the Dual Enrollment Access Gap Tool. The tool is in Google Sheets, and you can use it to collaborate, share and store in your Google Drive.

The tool includes written instructions and links to step-by-step explanatory videos.

DuE by age-grade 22-23

“This user-friendly tool provides a great resource to practitioners in the field of dual enrollment. The results sparked reflective conversations amongst my leadership team about taking steps to ensure we are closing all equity gaps in our program.”

Ryan Mcdonnel, Principal
Mt. SAC Early College High School

Notes about data

    • For this tool, “dual enrollment” refers to all high school students enrolled in community college courses.
    • The K-12 data included in the access gap tool was pulled from the California Department of Education’s DataQuest website. College data was provided by the California Community College Chancellor’s Office. Data is from the 2022-2023 academic year and was acquired in September 2023. Data will be updated annually.
    • The CLP Dual Enrollment Access Gap Tool does not contain identifiable student information. Individuals using the tool should not add identifiable student information.
    • Reports generated from this tool are intended for practitioner planning and discussions, not for official reporting purposes.