Hawaii trails the nation on the metric.

Hawaii News Now reports.

Report: 56% of Hawaii’s 2015 public school grads went to college

More Hawaii high school students are earning college credits before graduating. But the percentage of Hawaii graduates who actually went to college didn’t budge in 2015, a new report shows.

The disconnect is a concern for school leaders, who had hoped giving students a head start on college credits would translate into gains in Hawaii’s college-going rate.

The new school-by-school report shows that 10 percent of public school students who graduated in 2015 participated in dual-credit courses, earning high school and college credits, up from six percent in 2013.