National Prep Reaches Out to Area Youth to Become Part of Their Family

PREP FEST was a huge success!

National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter School (National Prep) designed a new creative campaign to attract area students who may still be undecided.  This year for the first time we reached out to neighboring families by going door to door in our surrounding community AND invited potential students to our first annual PREP FEST event on Friday August 1st, 2014.  We enjoyed seeing our returning students, meeting new students, and enrolling those who were undecided.

Returning students with Mr. Samuel Korpoi,
 Physical Education and
Health Teacher/ Basketball Coach

PREP FEST had interactive stations which assisted families with learning about National Prep’s successful 97% graduation and college acceptance rate, the My School DC enrollment process/requirements, uniforms, immunization requirements, extracurricular activities and FREE food.  Enrolled National Prep students received FREE backpacks with school 

supplies.  Prospective students and their families mixed and mingled with staff and current students.

Jennifer L. Ross, Executive Director/Founder and
Dr. Tonya Featherston, Deputy Director of Operations

National Prep is one of the only DC Public Charter schools offering the prestigious International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma AND they offer it to disadvantaged youth living in one of the poorest section of Washington, DC.  Special attention is given to the needs of disadvantaged youth at National Prep: from beginning their school year in the summer to ‘jump-start’ their program to extending the length of the day to allow for more instructional time. Many of our students come to us at the 3rd and 4th grade reading level and go on to graduate high school and attend college. This year alone we received over 3.7 million dollars in scholarship and grant monies for our students to go to college.  

Currently we are still enrolling 9th and 10th grade students.  Interested families can enroll by going to www.myschooldc.org and requesting National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter High School.