Results
Our Successes
BTH has been roundly successful in advancing the academic career of our underserved middle school students. In the last five years, 70% of our 187 BTH middle school students have gone on to attend Tier 1 college preparatory high schools in the greater Houston area. In the fall of 2010, our ninth grade students continued this tradition of success, as 17 students entered Tier 1 high schools as incoming freshman. BTH has been a stepping stone to success for so many of our students:
“Breakthrough has helped me in many ways. Because of Breakthrough, I’ve learned how to think big and I’ve learned how smart of a person I am.”
“Breakthrough Houston is an amazing program and has really changed my
life. Breakthrough has put me ahead of my peers in high school. I am already in the top 10% of my class with a 3.95 GPA. Breakthrough Houston is truly the best decision I’ve made for my academic life and my future.”
- Josue Coronado, KIPP Houston High School ’14
Our mission is equally fulfilled with our teachers. Each year, these dedicated and enthusiastic high school and college students get an opportunity to see how rewarding and gratifying a career in education can be, and we encourage each of them to pursue such a career after graduating from college. BTH has been a career turning point for so many of these talented future educators:
“Teaching as a career never entered my mind until those eight weeks in Houston. I had a tremendous experience as a result of my students and my mentor teacher…Breakthrough Houston informed me about the achievement gap, introduced me to friends and mentors I will know forever, and completely changed my life.”
- Bailey Thompson, BTH teacher ‘08
Current Teach for America Corps Member
“BTH was the program that convinced me that education was my passion, and that this was what I wanted to do with the rest of my life…I changed my major [from pre-med] to education when I returned to school in the fall, and I have never looked back.”
- Aaron Markham, BTH teacher ’05, ’09, ‘10
Current high school teacher; Emery-Weiner
[1]http://www.childrenatrisk.org//cmsFiles/Files/Greater%20Houston%20High%20School%20Rankings%20List%202010.pdf
