Case Study
Higley Learning Center
Background Higley Unified School District (HUSD) is one of only 15 K–12 school districts in Arizona to receive an “A” rating by the Arizona Department of Education. While HUSD has a 94 percent graduation rate and 85 percent of their student body goes on to college, a small group of students seemed to consistently fall behind, lose credits, and drop out of school. To reverse this trend, the district created the Higley Learning Center (HLC), a n