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Next Step: Stats

on class of 2007

The Next Step Board's Data Collection Committee has finshed polling all 83 graduates of lie RCHS Class of’07.

The percentage of graduites who are enrolled in college )r trade school m the fall lmmeiiately following graduation is ip for the third year in a row, to 16 percent.

The rate at which “FirstCeneration Students,” those vho will be the first in their ami lies with a college degree, •ose even more dramatically: rom 43 percent in 2005 to 69 jercent in 2007.

First-generation students enrolled in four-year colleges is lie most dramatic stat of all: from only 7% in 2006 to 33% in 2007

You can see two first-generation students talking about Lheir experience with Next Step in the Headwaters video.

All Headwaters supporters, the Rappahannock County Public Schools, the generous local donors who contributed scholarship funds, the Next Step staff and, above all, the students themselves should be very proud of these exerting accomplishments.

The next big push for the Data Collection Committee is to find out how the classes of 2006 and 2006 are doing. Like College Access programs across the country; Next Step wants to know not just how many students are enrolling in post-secondary education, but how many are graduating.

Coil Cole Johnson at 967'3322 i note new phone number) jr cunt www.headwatersfiin.org i>r information on Headwaters irvgrams.

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