Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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My 9th and 10th grade students are a wonderfully motivated group of voracious readers and talented writers. They clearly appreciate all they have overcome to get where they are. In addition to the neighborhood problems of drugs, gangs, violence, unemployment, and poverty in the community where I teach, good scholarship is often considered "uncool" even though it can frequently be a way to change a seemingly predetermined future. My students know that a good education is their ticket to success and they have been working hard in school for 11 years to get to where they are. With college looming around the corner, we spend every day in class working on the skills they will need to compete with students who have not faced the same challenges to completing their education.
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My 9th and 10th grade students are a wonderfully motivated group of voracious readers and talented writers. They clearly appreciate all they have overcome to get where they are. In addition to the neighborhood problems of drugs, gangs, violence, unemployment, and poverty in the community where I teach, good scholarship is often considered "uncool" even though it can frequently be a way to change a seemingly predetermined future. My students know that a good education is their ticket to success and they have been working hard in school for 11 years to get to where they are. With college looming around the corner, we spend every day in class working on the skills they will need to compete with students who have not faced the same challenges to completing their education.