Ohio Graduation Test- Summer Retake - Youngstown Ohio

Youngstown Ohio’s 64 city school seniors who did not pass the Ohio Graduation Test and were not able to graduate when their fellow classmates did will get another shot at passing the Ohio Graduation Test the last week of July.

Provided that they successfully complete the summer intervention program and then pass the section or sections of the Ohio Graduation Test that they failed in March. Once these students pass the test they will be counted as summer graduates and added to the total graduating class in Youngstown for 2007 graduating year.

The intervention program will be held at the new P. Ross Berry Middle School at 940 Bryn Mawr Ave. Students will be able to register at the site between 8 a.m. and noon Monday and Tuesday of next week. The classes are free for city residents.

Nonresidents can attend but they will have to pay a fee of $50 for the first session and $25 for each additional session that they attend. Those students who successfully complete the program can take the Ohio Graduation Test again the last week of July.

The classes will run from 10 A.M until 2 P.M. The Ohio Department of Education reported that, statewide, 12,387 seniors took the test and that 8,956 failed one or more parts of it. Of that number, 4,251 failed just one section of the test