From The McDowell News:
McDowell Early College (MEC) has seen tremendous growth over the last six years.
The school allows students to earn college credit and even an associate degree during high school.
Lisa Robinson has been the principal at MEC since it started and has seen how the program has grown.
“The initial plan (for MEC) was for 200 students,” she said. “We hoped to take 40 students in each year for five years and have our top number of students by year five. Our first year we took basically every student that applied and we only had 33 students.”
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