Freshmen & Sophomore Retention Rates
	Entering	Entering	Entering	Entering	Entering
	Fall 96	Fall 97	Fall 98	Fall 99	Fall 00
Number of New Freshmen Entering	193	162	210	185	178
Returning students after the First Year	129	118	144	119	133
as a percent of Entering Class	66.8%	72.8%	68.5%	64.3%	74.7%
Returning students after the Second Year	100	98	110	85
as a percent of Entering Class	46.8%	46.0%	55.8%	45.9%
New freshmen are defined as those entering LaGrange College having no previous college credits.
All data retrieved from BANNER database.