Fall 1987 data on student characteristics, course characteristics, and personnel in the Washington community colleges are presented in this report. The first section provides summary data on headcount and full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollments for 1983 through 1987; information on FTE's by funding source; and a comparison of state-supported FTE's by college. The next section focuses on student characteristics, providing data on full-/part-time status, age group, median age, gender, race, subject area, and new/continuing status. The third section presents enrollment data by course characteristics, with tables showing enrollment by funding source, course intent, subject, time, and location. Finally, personnel data are presented, including statistics on teaching faculty by employment status; numbers and percentages of employees and students by race, sex, and full-/part-time status; and the age structure of faculty and administrators. Selected findings include the following: (1) in fall 1987, the Washington community colleges served 163,278 students, representing an increase of 2.8% over 1986; (2) the average campus served 5,900 headcount and 3,300 FTE students; (3) the fastest-growing student groups were young students under 20 years of age and those 40 to 45 years of age; and (4) 42% of all students enrolled in fall 1987 were new to the college. (EJV)