Last May, during a visit to California, Scholarship America President Cliff Stanley and California Dollars for Scholars Executive Director Ann Worley paid a visit to Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles. The school is one of our most dedicated Dollars for Scholars chapters; as Worley writes: "this is a magnet school on the edge of Downtown L.A., in an older office building that the district owned, that looks anything like your ideal high school. But this is a school that is doing it right with the very kids who need the most help."

And doing it right they are: the school's college counselor, Lynda McGee, will be appearing at the Los Angeles Walk for Education in a couple of weeks with a busload of student volunteers, and, thanks in large part to the focus on college preparation that Dollars for Scholars has introduced, McGee has some other great news:

"[W]e are now the number one school in test scores and attendance in district 4 (LAUSD has 6 mini-districts, since it's so big). If you disregard the tiny charter schools that handpick their kids, we're in the top ten of high schools in all of L.A. We're moving on up, and still with low income first generation kids."

Congratulations to Downtown Magnets, for their continued work in going above and beyond to help the students who need it most.


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