A school like DSST is trying to close the Achievement Gap by getting kids to go to college. Even though the school is in a not so good neighborhood they are proving the government wrong and making a difference in kids lives. Where as other schools in the neighborhood don't really care about the kids or if they get their work done. At DSST all of the teachers try their hardest and improve the kids preformance.

This graph is showing how many students are graduation from DPS. As you can see each year the numbers get higher. Therefore if everybody tries to close the Achievement Gap these numbers can increase.

This graph shows the gap between the white and black student and the white and hispanic people. the blue bars shows the higher income students and the red bar are the lower  income students.

Acheivment Gap.

Acheivment Gap Awareness Campaign!

The Acheivement Gap is when higher income schools do better than kids in low income schools.
 The Achievement Gap effects kids by them not getting the same or better education as other kids. Some schools, like ours, DSST, are trying to close the Acheivement Gap and prove the goverment wrong that a good school can be put in a bad enviornment and kids can make improvents. There is a acheivment gap because low income schools have not as good teachers as high income schools. So high income schools will do better because they get more money than low income schools. Just know that you can always do something about it.