Portrait+in+Numbers

"Portrait in Numbers." //Early High School Initiative//. 2008. Web. 16 Sep. 2010. .

> • They earned an average 20-plus college credits. > • 39 percent earned at least a year of transferable college credit. > • 25 percent earned two full years of college credit or an Associate’s degree."
 * 1) Serves more than 47,000 students annually
 * 2) **"Early colleges are created and sustained** by a local education agency, a higher education institution, and the community"
 * 3) "Every early college partners with either a two-year or four-year college"
 * 4) "Early colleges are located on a college campus, drawing on the college environment and experience to build students’ identity as college goers."
 * 5) "Some are freestanding schools, situated near a partner’s campus."
 * 6) "Some Early Colleges are designed specifically to serve Native- American students, are located on reservations.
 * 7) **"32 schools serve students who previously dropped out of traditional high schools or were at risk of dropping out."**
 * 8) **"The average attendance rate for early college students in 2009 was 94 percent."   **
 * 9) **"Attendance was higher for students in early colleges located on college campuses."  **
 * 10) "The average grade-to-grade promotion rate in early college schools is **85 percent."  **
 * 11) "Organizations in the initiative have received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other funders to plan and open early college schools."
 * 12) "Start-up grants are small in comparison to the operating budgets of schools, which are funded primarily by states and local districts."
 * 13) "In 2009, 3,000 students graduated from the 64 early college schools open for four or more years: