MHS receives IB study grant

Marietta High School is one of five schools nationally to receive a grant to increase the number of low-income students in the International Baccalaureate Diploma program. The school will receive support valued at $75,000 for a three-year study which is part of the IB organization’s Bridging the Equity Gap Project.

Of 188 juniors in the IB program at MHS, 32 percent are low income and of 179 seniors, 28 percent are from low-income families, said Marietta City Schools spokesperson Sommer Vega.