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title: New numbers about charter school college success
description: "NEWS:the74: Low-income students at most of America's large charter school networks graduating college at 2-4x the national average"
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# [New numbers about charter school college success](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/new-numbers-about-charter-school-college-success)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 04/02/19

A fresh look at the college success records at the major charter networks serving low-income students shows alumni earning bachelor’s degrees at rates up to four times as high as the 11 percent rate expected for that student population.

The ability of the high-performing networks to make good on the promise their founders made to struggling parents years ago — Send us your kids and we will get them to and through college — was something I first reported on two years ago in [The Alumni](http://thealumni.the74million.org/).

 

[Read the full story here.](https://www.the74million.org/article/new-numbers-show-low-income-students-at-most-of-americas-largest-charter-school-networks-graduating-college-at-two-to-four-times-the-national-average/)

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