Successes

Successes for Upward Bound Students

  • All  (100%) of our graduates from class of 2015 are currently in enrolled at either community/technical college or a 4 year college or university  
  • 80% of our students are in the top 30% of their class, including one school in which Upward Bounders consist of the entire top-10 of the graduating class of 2016 and two students who have the top GPA in their grades (Valedictorian) – at two different schools.
  • One of our recent graduates (Uzuri Boatright, 2013) returned as keynote speaker for our 2015 graduation ceremony (she is on Full Scholarship at USC –Columbia) 
  • Visited 9 college campuses in 4 different states

Successes from the Staff

  • Look what former Upward Bound staff member, Matt Foley, is doing now