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Empowering Students Through AVID Program

Learn about AVID's history, mission, and impact in helping underserved students succeed in rigorous curriculum and enter college. AVID serves over 122,000 students worldwide and has a college matriculation rate of 95%.

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Empowering Students Through AVID Program

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  1. AVID (otherwise known as “Advancement via Individual Determination”)

  2. AVID History • Started in 1980 by Catherine Swanson, English Department Head at Clairemont High School in San Diego, CA. • Created to help underserved students in a newly desegregated school system. • Now serves over 122,000 students in 2,300 schools in 36 states and 15 countries. • More than 40,000 students have graduated from AVID program and have matriculated to college at a rate of 95%.

  3. The Mission of AVID AVID’s mission is to ensure that all students, particularly the least served students in the middle who are capable of completing a college path, will: * succeed in rigorous curriculum * enter mainstream activities of the school * increase their enrollment in 4-year colleges * become educated and responsible participants and leaders in a democratic society

  4. AVID Student Profile Students with Academic Potential * Average to High Test Scores (CRCT) * 2.0 – 3.5 GPA * College Potential with Support * Desire and Determination Meets One or More of the Following Criteria * First to Attend College * Historically Underserved in 4-year Colleges * Low Income

  5. Site Team • County Director – Mary Childress • BHS Coordinator – Kim Hawthorne • Administrators – Michelle Drew & Sam Wilson • Counselor – Dewayne Grant • English – • Social Studies – Leslie Hicks • Science – Christy Carone (to be trained) • Math – David Akin

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