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While at their high school, however, the high school guidelines will be followed. As a result, parents will be able to ascertain information about their child from the high school, but not from the college.

All classes that the students take here will be transcripted and sent to the high school, according to Hill, as they count for high school credit. Once they have those grades, they have to follow their rules and let the parents know.

Depending on the success of the pilot program, both Hill and Silverman hope to expand Middle College to include more high schools.

“We want to make sure that any other school district that wants to do this with us can do this with us,” Silverman said. “Each one of them could be the same or we could customize our agreements with [each school]. We would be open for discussions.”

The program should be a “win, win, win,” Hill said, “for the students, college and the high school district. Our goal is to have fewer high school drop outs, more students completing high school and earning college credit and more students enrolled in the college. We think everyone comes out ahead, especially the student.”

According to Hill, MHCC and Reynolds are currently working on an interagency agreement, which should be finalized sometime this fall.