Quick Facts

The Need in Denver

33 out of 1,182 of African-American 10th graders scored proficient or above on the CSAP math test in the entire Denver Public School district last year
61 out of 2,595 Latino 10th-graders
Under 40% of African-Americans graduate from Denver Public Schools
Approximately 30% of Latinos graduate

The Need in Colorado

$1.7 – $2.3 million: the cost to our communities for each dropout due to:
- Decreased personal income potential along with the well-documented links to
- Increased drug use and its associated
- Property loss crimes & subsequent
- Incarceration
68% of state prison inmates do not hold a high school diploma
$63,815 the annual cost of incarcerating one youth offender
48th worst in the nation for high school dropouts between 16 and 19 year olds and
Dead last of the world’s science & engineering Ph.D.’s will be natives of Asia by 2010.

Worldwide Comparisons

$500 Billion: What Americans spent last year on public K-12 (federal state and local tax dollars) Yet, in the process of far outspending every other nation on the planet, the U.S. ranks
18th world wide in reading
22nd world wide in science
28th world wide in math

ACE Provides

95% of our scholarship recipients graduated last year
86% of those students are now in college
73% are African-American or Latino
100% qualify for the Federal Free or Reduced Lunch Program
$18,416: the average annual income of ACE families.
3.23 times more likely to be reading at the Advanced or Proficient levels after completing just one year in their ACE private school

(Sources: Colorado Department of Education, Colorado Children’s Campaign, Harvard University Program on Education and Governance, Denver Post, Journal of Quantitative Criminology.)

A majority of the kids ACE serves come from families of 5 making under $18,000 a year. With 95% of ACE kids graduating, and 80% of them going on to college, ACE is offering another chance to those kids who are otherwise overlooked.