High school graduates are defined as those students who graduated high school on time with a standard high school diploma or higher. It does not include students who earned a general education diploma (GED), a certificate of completion, vocational diploma, special education diploma or any other credential that illustrates student accomplishments but not satisfaction of high school requirements. This analysis does not include students who dropped out of high school. Non-college enrollees are high school graduates who had not attended a two- or four-year college, but may have enrolled in a non-academic institution like a trade school. Policymakers pour a lot of resources into making sure students graduate ready to enter college but not necessarily the workforce. In order to better understand how non-college goers fared in the years after graduation, this report, comprised of three parts, investigated how best to prepare them for success, finding that rigorous academics benefit all students. [This report was written with contributions by Jordan Belton, Patricia Campbell, and Naomi Dillon.]