Green Dot Public Schools (Green Dot) operates charter high schools in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Los Angeles. By creating a small school environment more conducive to learning (numbering no more than 560 students per school, compared with over 3,500 in a typical public high school in Los Angeles), it maintains attendance rates close to 97%, and its students achieve higher test scores than their counterparts with similar backgrounds in traditional public schools. Currently serving approximately 4,100 students, Green Dot plans to open 20 more schools by 2010, to serve 16,000 students at full scale.

Green Dot’s model, with a strong commitment to quality, produces very positive results: 78% of students who enter in the 9th grade graduate high school, and over 67% of these graduates go on to four-year colleges and universities, compared with the Los Angeles Unified School District’s graduation rate of just 46% of its 9th graders and a college attendance rate of only 24%.

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Total Revenue (in millions)

Outcomes: Students Graduating High School

Outcomes: College Acceptance