What is AVID

AVID Program Description

Colleges nationwide are striving to increase their enrollment of students in post-secondary education, especially those students designated “students in the middle” who are often underachieving, disadvantaged, underrepresented, or first generation college students.  Many of these students with potential to succeed in college need extra encouragement and academic assistance, which traditional secondary school programs do not offer. AVID meets the needs of these students by:

• Providing academic instruction and other support to students to prepare them for eligibility to four-year colleges and universities
• Giving students entry-level college  skills
• Increasing the “coping skills” of program students
• Motivating program students to seek a college education
• Increasing the student’s level of career awareness

The AVID program is a four-year regularly scheduled elective college preparatory class for students with academic potential.

Students must meet one or more of the following critria:

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