Lake Tahoe
Community College
Public Community College in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Six-year graduation rate 45%. Median 10-year earnings $36,657.
Students who entered Lake Tahoe Community College reach a median of $36,657 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Six-year completion sits at 45%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Six-year completion sits at 45%, meaning about three in five students who enroll leave without finishing. 44% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. 13% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. Retention drops to 26% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. At 25:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,909 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $11,799 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($8,025 versus $12,861), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 36% of students receive any. 2% borrow federally — a low rate, though it covers federal loans only.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 223 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $8,025 |
| $30–48k | $8,109 |
| $48–75k | $9,140 |
| $75–110k | $12,861 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 60 of these 2,909 students, totalling $444,675 — an average of $7,411 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (El Dorado County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)