Our Mission
The Achievement Academy of Durham empowers hard-working, at-risk students, who have dropped out of high school, to become productive, successful members of the community through obtaining a North Carolina High School Equivalency Diploma and postsecondary education.
Our year-round daily school provides the education and support necessary for high risk, initially low reading, hard-working students living in poverty to become gainfully employed citizens. We pair formal education with the teaching of personal and leadership skills to turn lives around.
In addition to helping our students earn a NC High School Equivalency Diploma (“GED”), we work with our students through post-secondary education at Durham Technical Community College (DTCC).
Postsecondary education enables our students to move out of poverty and gain financial stability for themselves and their children.
Since our founding in 2005, we’ve graduated 68 GEDs1, 60% of which have gone on to take at least one post secondary class. And 8 of our students have graduated from post-secondary education programs. You can help us do even more.
1 Number of GED graduates is current as of 01/10.
