High School students are taking advantage of class offering at NICC

Most school districts in Northeast Iowa, including Decorah schools, allow their high school students to take classes at Northeast Iowa Community College if the high schools don't teach those classes.  The school districts then cover tuition costs from NICC, which are many times reduced in an effort the help the school districts.  Even in cases where NICC classes are duplicates of classes offered at the high school level and the parents must pay full tuition, the classes count as college credit, giving high school students a leg up when they enter college.

Now NICC officials have done a study of just how much this program has been used--and the numbers are eye-popping.  The NICC Institutional Research Office says high school students enrolled in concurrent enrollment credit courses through NICC saved their families an estimated $11 million in tuition in Fiscal Year 2013.