1. EMMA DONNAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Community Profile

2. ETHNIC DIVERSITY
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Multiracial White Black Hispanic American Indian Asian Native
Hawaiian/
Pacific Islander
School
Community

3. LANGUAGE PROFILE
90.7%
8.0%
0.5%
0.4% 0.4%
Percent English Speakers
Spanish Speaking
Other indo-european
Asian/ Pacific Island
Other

4. DEMOGRAPHICS

5. TAKEAWAYS
• Students in high poverty urban schools have increased risks associated
with student behavior and academic success.
• High rates of high school dropouts
• Lower college applications
• Lower self-efficacy
• Lower self-confidence

6. TAKEAWAYS
• Negative outcomes for this population can be mitigated through a positive
and supportive relationship with an adult (Murray & Malmgren, 2005).
•
• Low-income students who have found a strong teacher-student
relationship have higher academic achievement along with increased
social-emotional adjustment (Murray & Malmgren, 2005).
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• Positive teacher-student relationships can reduce rates of dropping out by
half (Dika & Singh, 2002)

7. RAUL RAMIREZ
Student Profile and Interventions

8. STUDENT PROFILE
• Bilingual
• Associates more with American than with native Mexicans
• Isolates himself from family
• Socially isolated
• Above average grades but beginning to slack off
• Learning wasn’t meaningful
• Depressed, sad, moody, inconsistent with quality of work and becoming
resistent to learning.