Project Reach Program –

 This is the first year for the Project Reach program at West Union. The Middle School Program offers students an experiential-based curriculum that increases motivation and teaches real-world skills necessary for academic and career success. The program is offered to students in grades 7 and 8, and combines classroom learning, leadership development, and organized community service learning. The Middle School Program seeks to connect or reconnect students to school, their primary supports such as friends/family, and to provide transition support when they enter high school. The program’s primary goals are to improve students’ positive perceptions of themselves as persons and as students, and to assist them in their successful transition into high school.

    Program Objectives:

    Goal 1 - To assure that Gear Up students are academically prepared for high school completion & success in post secondary education. 

                    Improve high school graduation rate.

    Goal 2- To increase Gear Up students and parents understanding of higher education and increase the number of students who aspire to

                     higher education.

    Goal 3- To increase the students and parents understanding of the actual costs and availability of financial aid opportunities to assure

                     financial affordability.  All students and parents gain information.

    Goal 4- To insure that 8 Ohio Lighthouse sites will become self-sustaining develop civic participation in their programs and spread

                     awareness and replication in other schools and communities.

    Information contact West Union Jr. Sr. High School 937-544-5553

    The program is for all students in the 7-12 grades and their families.

    12 Strategic plans:

    1.Promote civic participation

    2.Increase the GPA

    3.Utilize local media

    4.Academically prepared

    5.College awareness

    6.Prepare students for the future

    7.Provide financial aid opportunities

    8.Community awareness and focus

    9.Parent outreach programs

    10.Improve high school graduation rate

    11.Strategic planning programs

    12.Provide teaching tools that provide an interest in higher education