Look at this particular public high school:
- Every student is the first in their families to finish high school, and every one of them graduates and goes to college.
- There are no discipline problems, no suspensions in three years
- There’s next to no teacher turnover.
- There’s 100 percent proficiency on all North Carolina End-of-Year tests.
- The 25 graduating seniors this year were offered $1.7 million in college scholarships.
- All 160 students go to school year-round for five years.
Look at this community (U.S. Census):
- 35 percent of children grow up in poverty.
- Median household income is $35,050.
- One in 10 adults has a college degree.
- In 15 percent of families, English is not the spoken language.
- The racial identity is 47 percent Caucasian, 36 percent African American, 15 percent Hispanic.
This is Greene Early College High School in Greene County, N.C. It’s on the Snow Hill campus of Lenoir Community College, across the road from a substation maintained by Pitt & Greene EMC, the electric cooperative that proudly serves the communities here . . .
Since 2003, the North Carolina New Schools program has been among the nation’s leaders in preparing the state’s students for successful college and life experiences. More than 140 schools, 2,700 educators and 40,000 students are part of the program. Greene Early College High School is one of them.
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