AVID

Impact of AVID

How do we know AVID works?

First-generation, low-income AVID alumni who go to college are four times more likely to graduate than their national peers:

  • 42% of first-generation, low-income AVID college students graduate with a four-year degree within six years.

  • 11% of peers nationally graduate within the same time frame.

Virginia Students Served in 2018-19

  • 10,711 Elementary and Secondary AVID students

    • 6% Asian

    • 38% Black

    • 26% Hispanic

    • 25% White

    • 5% Multi Racial

    • 1% Other

96% of AVID Virginia seniors completed four-year college entrance requirements.

AVID Virginia seniors are enrolling at more consistent rates between major subgroups than the U.S. population overall:

  • 82% Black

  • 72% Hispanic

  • 71% White

  • 78% Other

  • 77% Mid/high Socio-Economic Status

  • 76% Low Socio-Economic Status

Enrollment at two and four-year college campuses 2017-18

  • 82% took at least one course of rigor

  • 100% graduated from high school

  • 3.3 average GPA

  • 100% applied to four-year college/university

  • 80% accepted

503 Virginia teachers, administrators, and counselors were AVID- trained in 2018-19. AVID has provided educators nationwide with a systematic approach for increasing rigor and engagement within the learning environment to improve the academic performance of not only those students typically underrepresented but all.