Opportunity Scholarship Report 2017

In award year 2017, a record number of students received the Idaho Opportunity Scholarship. Due to the increase in the number of awards in 2016, a large share of awards in 2017 were renewals (59 percent). Between 2016 and 2017, the number of high school seniors receiving new awards decreased by 21 percent while the number of current college undergraduates receiving new awards decreased by almost 60 percent.