Student Success

 

  
  More Students Graduating- Over 90% of students who enter the PEAK Program as freshmen earn their high school diplomas while less than 60% of Chicago Public School students reach graduation

Meet the board and staff

  
 

Program Objectives
To provide at-risk students with a quality, values-based education.

To serve academically average and below average students - those who are typically overlooked in the scholarship process.

To develop a four-year partnership involving each PEAK student, parent/ guardian, PEAK mentor and our partner school.

To support our partner school in providing a challenging and rewarding educational experience.

 


Sean Callahan tells the story of PEAK in his article, Peak Performance (Notre Dame Magazine Online, Spring 2002)


 

 

  

"You inspire me to never give up and to keep striving to reach my goals and dreams...I will be forever grateful to you and will never let you down."--Samara, Class of 2003

Growing up too fast. Samara went straight from school to her job in a fast-food restaurant where she worked to help her mom pay the bills. She would sleep on the ride home and stay up until midnight doing her homework only to get up at 6am and do it again. Samara was awarded a PEAK scholarship at the beginning of her sophomore year and graduated with honors from Holy Trinity High School in June 2003.

Samara received a full scholarship to DePaul University where she earned her bachelor's degree in Business in August of 2007.
 

Our Program

 Since 1997, PEAK has been providing at-risk students with an alternative to the Chicago Public Schools system (CPS).  PEAK creates access to a quality education by enabling PEAK students to attend the highly regarded Holy Trinity High School.

Each PEAK student is paired with a Sponsor who commits to fund their entire high school tuition.  Our Sponsors often also serve as their student’s Mentor through these four years.  Should a Sponsor be unable to take on this active of a role, PEAK identifies another adult for the Mentor relationship – the critical consistent one-on-one guide throughout the high school years. 

PEAK students, Sponsors and Mentors journey together through high school on the path toward graduation.  The high school diplomas PEAK students earn - once assumed unattainable - significantly impact and positively alter their lives.  The blend of a dedicated Sponsor/Mentor, a challenging curriculum and a caring, supportive environment that emphasizes personal responsibility dramatically improves PEAK students' prospects, far beyond high school.   

PEAK Report Card

  • PEAK does not favor academically gifted students.  Rather, the program focuses on serving the unmet needs of average-to-below-average students.

  • PEAK is the only high school scholarship program in Chicago that pays 100% tuition and focuses on academically average students. PEAK proudly boats a 90% graduation rate as compared to the 60% rate of CPS.  Furthermore, nearly all graduates – 90 percent - go on to pursue higher education.

  • PEAK strives to foster an environment that empowers these students to realize both academic and personal success. By design, PEAK students are nominated by their grade school principal or after-school program director, ensuring the kids most likely to be left behind in the public school system are afforded this opportunity.

  • PEAK has touched the lives of more than 150 Chicago students.

 
 
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