The enhanced APPE was advertised to all fourth-year (senior year) students through e-mail and class presentations, and interested students were recruited on a first-come basis.
At the elite Mission San Jose High School, whose students are 61percentt Asian, and where the senior class has 17 students tied for valedictorian, signs for the school election -- "Amanda Chan for Class Treasurer," "Sadaf Gowani for Secretary" -- reflect the transformed city.
Knox officials will not yet say, but Liesl Pereira, the senior class president, said students were emboldened.
With a senior class of four students, she found it easy to get extra help from teachers.
Enrollment is decreasing, he said, probably because the population has aged: the senior class has 155 students, and the kindergarten has 71.
At Tappan Zee High School, 71percentt of last year's senior class of 228 students attended four-year colleges, and 26percentt attended two-year colleges.
The Galaxy will present their first senior class of 11 students with high school diplomas in June.
Of last year's 266-student senior class, 92 percent went on to two- or four-year colleges.
Of last year's 118-student senior class, 79percentt went on to four-year colleges and 17percentt went to two-year institutions.
Bonnie Richardson, the valedictorian of her 14-student senior class in the tiny farming town of Rochelle, Tex., won the Class A girls team state title for the second consecutive year by single-handedly beating 56 other schools.
