A study was conducted at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) to provide data on the basic skills performance of first-time-in-college students who graduated from area public high schools between August 1982 and September 1983 and enrolled at MDCC in fall 1983. The entering basic skills performance of students who graduated in the top 20% of their high school class was considered separately from the performance of students who were below the 80th percentile, thereby allowing for direct school-to-school comparisons. Study findings included the following: (1) the overall percentage of graduates enrolled from any given high school fluctuated considerably from school to school; (2) MDCC attracted 23.11% of the top 20% group and 27.95% of the remaining students; (3) of the 3,337 first-time-in-college students who were Dade County Public School graduates, 94% were assessed with the Comparative Guidance and Placement (CGP) self-scoring tests in Reading, Written English Expression, and Computation; (4) for 13 schools, at least one out of every four top 20% graduates did not pass the CGP Reading test; (5) there were only five schools where fewer than 75% of the graduates scored above the developmental placement score in writing; and (6) at least one out of four students in the top 20% group from 15 of the high schools needed developmental coursework, while more than half of the bottom 80% group from every high school except one needed developmental coursework. (EJV)