News

June 5, 2009

97% of LPS Graduating Students are College Bound

Ninety-seven percent of LPS graduates across the network are college bound, many of whom will be first-generation college students. LPS celebrated graduations at all four of our Bay Area campuses this June with inaugural classes at LPS-Hayward and LPS-College Park. Each ceremony was a moving reflection of the dedication of our students and their families along with the LPS teachers, administrators and staff.

Here is an excerpt from the LPS-College Park Valedictorian's address at the inaugural LPS College-Park graduation.

"French author, Victor Hugo wrote, 'He who opens a school door closes a prison'. This quote is the reality for children who grow up in East Oakland. Teenagers in East Oakland either attend school, get caught up with drugs and violence and go to prison or unfortunately end up dying. School is the key to the door of opportunity; the lifeboat from what the streets offer us. Our education will bring us freedom, our education will bring us prosperity, our education will save us from prisons. We are all leaders, we are all successes, we are the class of 2009."  - Marina Cruz, LPS-College Park Valedictorian

College Bound Rates (by School)

LPS-San Jose - 100%
LPS-Richmond - 97%
LPS-College Park - 88%
LPS-Hayward - 97%

A Partial List of College Acceptances

Middlebury College
Howard University
Johnson & Whales
University of California San Diego
University of California Davis
University of California Irvine
University of California Riverside
University of California Santa Cruz
University of California Merced
University of California Berkeley
University of Tennessee
San Diego State University
National Hispanic University
Sacramento State University
Santa Clara University
Holy Names College
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of San Francisco
Dominican University
Suffolk University
Loyola University – New Orleans
Lutheran University
Clark Atlanta
California State University East Bay
California State University Monterey Bay
California State University Bakersfield
California State University Maritime
California State University Los Angeles
California State University Northridge
Chico State University
College of Marin
Lassen College
Menlo College
Grambling State University
College of Alameda
Santa Monica Community College
Devry Technical Institute
San Jose State University
San Francisco State University
Cal Poly
Humboldt State University