Hoovers dropout rate of 2.3 percent Is less than half of the average national dropout rate. Hoover has been transformed from a school where dropping out was the norm to a flourIshing environment where half of Its students go to college. Dods Alvarez has produced these results In an environment where students are faced with a host of challenges. Most students at Hoover live In neighborhoods with high crime rates. Eightytwo percent of Hoover students are poor. Ninetythree percent are Immigrants or minorities. who speak a total of 30 languages. Doris Alvarez has been so successful with these students because of her own challenging background. She grew up poor In Albuquerque.
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