The AVID student is a student with academic potential:
- Desire and determination to enter a 4 year university
- Average to high test scores
- 2.0-3.5 GPA (or higher)
- College potential with support
- Has average or above average citizenship grades and regular attendance
The AVID student meets one or more of the following criteria:
- First generation in their family to attend college
- Historically “least served” in 4-year colleges/universities
- Students in the academic middle seeking additional support in a rigorous curriculum
- Special circumstances
Highlights from AVID Graduate Research:
- AVID sends one third more students to 4-year colleges than the local and national average.
- African American AVID students, whether they participate in AVID for one or three years, are enrolling in college at rates which are considerably higher than the local and national average.
- Students who participate in AVID enroll more often than students who don't participate, and the longer students enroll in AVID, the better is their college enrollment record.
- AVID students are staying in college once they enroll; 89% of those who started are in college two years later.
- In short, the capital that students bring with them into the program does not seem to be as important as the capital that the students accrue while they are in the program.
- More than twice the percentage of students with two years of middle school AVID took three or more AP classes than those with only one year or no AVID experience in middle school.