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AVID
A Department of Curriculum Instruction & Accountability

 

Region 8     KERN COUNTY

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About the AVID Program

The AVID program works within the regular school day and includes an elective class, trained tutors, an AVID teacher, and a site team of teachers, focusing on college preparation, writing, inquiry, and collaboration.

AVID serves over 270,000 middle school and high school students at 3,000 schools in 45 states and 15 foreign countries via the Department of Defense Dependents School.  U.S. states implementing AVID include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

AVID RESULTS

What differentiates AVID from other school reform programs is AVID's success rate.  Independent research statewide in California, and national yearly data collection by the AVID Center have shown the AVID Program to be effective in preparing average-achieving students for college.  For example, since 1990, 30,000 AVID students have graduated from high school and gone on to four-year universities or colleges.  According to research on AVID by the University of California, San Diego, high school students enrolled in the AVID program for at least three years graduate and enter college at a 93% rate, 75% higher than the national average.  Other program measures include:

• Over 80% of AVID graduates are enrolled continuously in college since leaving high school (CREATE, 1999; Mehan, et al, 1996).
• African-American AVID students who participate in AVID for three years are enrollong in college at rates which are considerably higher than national averages.  Fifty-five percent of the AVID African-American graduates enrolled in four-year colleges, while the national average was 33% (Mehan, et al, 1996).
• Of the Latino students who participated in AVID, 43% enrolled in four-year colleges.  This exceeds the national average of 29% (Mehan, et al, 1996).
• AVID graduates complete the sequence of courses necessary for four-year college acceptance at an 84% rate; the California state average is 34% (CREATE, 1999).

 

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