More than half of 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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I live and teach in a small Indiana town of about 18,000. The school I teach at has a high poverty rate. Many of my students struggle day to day in their home environments. School is the place where they know they will be safe. Many of them come to school without the life experiences that most of us take for granted. Several of them live in homes where one or more of their caregivers struggled in school and maybe didn't graduate from high school. Yet everyday they come in smiling and eager to learn. Their parents are anxious to do their best by them and bring them to many extra school activities - they encourage their education the best that they can. My kids have the biggest, kindest hearts and the most amazing creative ideas - they just need the confidence to recognize that in themselves.
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I live and teach in a small Indiana town of about 18,000. The school I teach at has a high poverty rate. Many of my students struggle day to day in their home environments. School is the place where they know they will be safe. Many of them come to school without the life experiences that most of us take for granted. Several of them live in homes where one or more of their caregivers struggled in school and maybe didn't graduate from high school. Yet everyday they come in smiling and eager to learn. Their parents are anxious to do their best by them and bring them to many extra school activities - they encourage their education the best that they can. My kids have the biggest, kindest hearts and the most amazing creative ideas - they just need the confidence to recognize that in themselves.