Who Shares our Mission to Get Kids Career-Focused and Reduce Dropout Rates?

Grady Talks is about helping kids get on a meaningful career path and stay in school.   Who else in Georgia is doing the same thing?

http://www.cisga.org/

We found this group,  Communities In Schools of Georgia, who's mission states that "Every Child Needs and Deserves: -A personal, one-on-one relationship with a caring adult -A safe place to learn and grow -A healthy start and a healthy future -A marketable skill to use upon graduation -A chance to give back".



The national organization, Communities In Schools, says they are "the United States' largest dropout prevention organization".

http://www.mattiecstewart.org/

Another group, The Mattie C. Stewart Foundation,  says they are "helping to reduce the dropout rate and increase the graduation rate in communities across the United States".

Do you know any other organizations who focus on high school student achievement?

http://www.gadoe.org

We were able to find some recent data  from Georgia Department of Education about gradution rates at Grady and Atlanta Public Schools.  Grady seemed to have done well in 2010 with a 91.6% graduation rate.     


A closer look at the chart below reveals why the APS rate is down at 63.3%.   It seems that troubled students often transfer to another school before graduation and thus don't get scored against the school's graduation rate.


Stats from 2009-2010 School Year:

School Name	Graduation Class Size	Graduation Rate
Early College High School at Carver	65	98.5
South Atlanta School of Health and Medical Science	52	82.7
Mays High School	321	90.3
Maynard H. Jackson, Jr. High School	192	80.2
North Atlanta High School	235	85.1
Tech High School	55	89.1
South Atlanta Law and Social Justice School	50	84.0
School of Technology at Carver	71	97.2
School of Health Sciences and Research at Carver	102	87.3
South Atlanta School of Computer Animation and Design	50	84.0
The School of the Arts at Carver	70	98.6
Therrell School of Law, Government and Public Policy	67	68.7
Therrell School of Engineering, Math, and Science	65	73.8
Therrell School of Health and Science	64	64.1
Crim High School	694	12.8
Douglass High School	336	77.7
Grady High School	322	91.6
Washington High School Senior Academy	283	81.6
All Schools	3201	66.3