The student who is most likely to benefit from Community School is one who possesses several of the following gifts, strengths, abilities, and challenges:

•  Demonstrated long term commitment, passion and ability in at least  one of the following areas: the arts (both visual and performing),  technology, athletics, music, and socially adept/gifted with  peers/adults

•  Creative problem solving abilities

•  Possesses the ability to think outside the box and function at high  levels of cognition and has the ability to analyze, synthesize and  compare and contrast information

•  Throughout academic career, has had no difficulty with reading  comprehension or mathematical computation

•  Began to experience a drop in GPA sometime during their middle  school experience.  This drop in their academic/behavioral  performance has continued through middle school and is at risk to  significantly impact their 9th grade performance and high school  career.

•  Student does not require special education services and needs little  or no remediation.  He or she may possess gaps in their learning, but  once addressed, can perform at appropriate levels of academic  performance