All of the 69 seniors in the first graduating class of Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy High School have been accepted into college.

The students have been accepted to colleges from Georgia to Massachusetts to Hawaii.

The school is one of 16 in Georgia with an in-house representative from the National College Advising Corps whose job is to increase college attendance by helping first-generation, under-represented and low-income students enroll in post-secondary institutions.

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