Facts Sheet

What are the outcomes as of September 2007?

 

Overall, Young Scholars LPP students have a 96 percent graduation rate from high school.  Of these graduates, 93 percent earned a New York State Advanced Regents or Regents Diploma.  Upon graduation, 83 percent of Young Scholars LPP enroll in institutions of higher learning.

9-Year Summary of Post-High School Graduation Outcomes

330 High School Seniors, Class of 1999-Class of 2007

 

Enrollment Type	Percent
4-year college	57.6%
2-year college	22.1%
Military	2.1%
Employment	9.4%
Other	8.8%

The demographics of the YSLPP are reflective of Utica itself. Students in grades 7-9 attend either James H. Donovan Middle School or John F. Kennedy Middle School, while students in grades 10-12 attend T.R. Proctor High School. The ethnicity of the 330 YSLPP students is as follows:

• 48 percent African-American
• 17.6 Percent Hispanic/Latino
• 25.7 percent White/Non-Hispanic, including recent immigrants from Bosnia, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine
• 8.4percent Asian
• 0.3 percent Native American

Teaching about diversity is easy since the YSLPP lives it everyday.

Young Scholars efforts have had encouraging results with a 95 percent graduation rate from the last nine years of graduating classes and more than 80 percent of the YSLPP high school graduates are attending college. Ninety-three percent of Young Scholars have received Regents or Advanced Regents Diplomas as opposed to Proctor High School's 64 percent of graduates. Eighty-three percent of the Young Scholar graduates enrolled into college in 2007 (in New York State 77 percent of graduates earn a Regents Diploma).

 

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