School Partnership
Our partnership with local schools increases attendance, grades, long term student success, relieves financial burdens on families, and allows more than 250 kids to dream of future possibilities.
New High School Program
In 2024 Rooted took on its largest community project. In partnership with the local school, we helped them start a high school. After 9th grade, most students become farmers or laborers, get married, and have their own kids because they cannot afford high school or lack the means to travel to school.
We helped the community launch their own high school, so all students have the opportunity to graduate from high school and get a meaningful education. A large project like this costs as little as $15,000 in the first year for teachers, curriculum, and equipment to send 18 teens to school.
In the summer of 2024, the school was administratively approved as the "Instituto Gubernamental Lidys M. Reyes," named appropriately after the school's principal, who dedicated 10 years to getting the school started. It received full government funding and approval in 2025. Its first graduating class will be in the fall of 2026. We are grateful and hopeful!
After School Tutoring
In 2023 we started an after school program where students in upper grades can get extra tutoring and a free lunch 2 days per week. The teachers volunteer their time after school and rooted provides the meals and a small gift for the teacher's time. As a result fewer kids are repeating grades next year and more kids are dreaming about attending high school, college, and having professional careers.
School Supply Assistance
Not only does every child in our Family Preservation Program receive all the school supplies and uniforms that are required to attend school, we have helped over 80 additional students attend school. This small gesture has paid huge dividends, increasing school attendance and enrollment by 45%.