71% of 310 Seniors at Central High School as of Friday had already committed to pursue some type of education after graduation.

“It really is up from last year,” said Terri Godfrey, Central High School Assistant Principal. “I think we had about 66% total last year.”

Godfrey said she thinks the increase is based on a buzz around the school’s social media campaign for Seniors that started this school year.

“In the fall the Counseling Center did the #iapplied and it was during college application week,” Godfrey said. “Now a lot of their scholarships and things have come back and they are able to make their decisions at this time and we’re calling it #idecided.”

There have also been several events held at the school around the campaign including, the school’s first inaugural Decision Day held Friday to honor students who have plans for post-secondary education.

At Decision Day 2015 students got a chance to take part in a signing day to show where they plan to go to school and tweet photos with the hashtag #idecided.

“We are honoring our students who have committed to post-secondary plans,” Godrey said. “Anybody who has applied and decided to go to a college, university, technical school or join the military.”

Godfrey said the campaign has gotten a lot of good feedback from students.

“There’s kind of been a buzz about it and we’re focusing on seniors but I’m hoping that the Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors are also listening and paying attention and that when it comes time for them to be Seniors that they’re going to remember this and that they’re going to get busy even earlier and remember exactly ‘hey they got to do this now I get to do this,'” Godfrey said.

The school said previously, signing ceremonies have been reserved for athletes; so this project is a way to recognize all students with a post-secondary plan for further education.