[lemma=attend] [lemma=□] □
[lemma=attend] [lemma=postsecondary] □
[lemma=attend] [lemma=have] □
Such students are typically more successful in completing college degrees than their counterparts whose parents never attended postsecondary education ( Nu ñ ez and Cuccaro-Alamin 1998 ) . Smaller schools also graduate a higher percentage of their students , and more of those students attend postsecondary schools . Moreover , when students with disabilities attend postsecondary programs , they are more likely to attend two-year or vocational programs rather than four-year , degree-granting institutions and when they do attend , they are less likely than their peers to persist in these programs and graduate . Since their inception 40 years ago , Pell Grants have enabled millions of disadvantaged students , most of them first-generation college students , to attend postsecondary institutions and earn degrees .