“Changing student's attitudes, values and behaviors, and providing support & resources to their families with early intervention can reduce drop-out rates.”

- Russell Rumberger, Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis

The Need

Urban high schools in low-income areas have the highest truancy, suspension and drop-out rates and the lowest graduation rates in the state.

For the 2006 – 2007 year:

26% of Evans High School Students were absent more than 21 days
24% had in school suspensions and 30% had out of school suspensions
Evans had the lowest graduation rate in Orange County - 50.8%

"Every high school drop-out costs society, over the course of their life, $2 million."

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The Need

Urban high schools in low-income areas have the highest truancy, suspension and drop-out rates and the lowest graduation rates in the state.

For the 2006 – 2007 year:

26% of Evans High School Students were absent more than 21 days

24% had in school suspensions and 30% had out of school suspensions

Evans had the lowest graduation rate in Orange County - 50.8%

"Every high school drop-out costs society, over the course of their life, $2 million."

- Journal of Criminology, 1998

In 2007, Orange County had the 2nd highest felony crime rate in the state of Florida, exceeding that of Miami-Dade County.