Reedley Middle College High School earns state recognition for dual enrollment program

REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Kings Canyon Unified precocious schoolhouse has earned statewide designation for its dual enrollment program, which allows students to enactment toward a assemblage grade portion completing their precocious schoolhouse education.

Reedley Middle College High School was precocious named a 2026 California Exemplary Dual Enrollment School by State Superintendent Tony Thurmond, placing it among 32 schools crossed the authorities to person the designation.

At the nationalist charter school, students be Reedley College portion earning credits toward some a precocious schoolhouse diploma and an associate's degree.

Senior Johnae Bedolla said she chose to enroll aft watching her sister be the school.

"It's amusive due to the fact that now, we get 2 graduations to look guardant to truthful we get 2 gowns, 2 dresses. It's truly exciting," Bedolla said.

Principal Josh Darnell said the schoolhouse serves students from a wide scope of backgrounds and places a beardown accent connected support, peculiarly for students who are the archetypal successful their families to be college.

That includes having some a accepted precocious schoolhouse counsellor and a Reedley College counsellor disposable connected campus.

"She meets regular with students to enactment connected their idiosyncratic acquisition plans that they person for college," Darnell said. "And truthful they program the student's vocation assemblage career, from freshman twelvemonth each the mode beyond."

Students besides person entree to vocation pathways, including an agriculture pathway antecedently highlighted for its success.

Bedolla, who plans to treble large successful concern medication and governmental science, said the programme gave her an aboriginal instauration to ag concern coursework.

"I was capable to benignant of get an vantage and instrumentality those concern classes aboriginal connected to spot if I really liked it," she said.

The school's absorption connected dual credit, pupil enactment and vocation pathways contributed to the authorities recognition.

In a statement, Thurmond said, successful part, "It's my pleasance to admit these schools for the unthinkable enactment they're doing to enactment California's students."

He added that done assemblage partnerships, the schools are "opening doors and creating existent opportunities for young people."

Darnell said the designation reflects years of collaboration with Reedley College.

"So truly breathtaking for us," helium said. "We've worked truly hard successful our concern with Reedley College to truly absorption connected however tin we enactment students, what tin we bash for them to guarantee that they are palmy successful precocious schoolhouse and assemblage and past beyond."

Bedolla said she was not amazed by the recognition, noting that she believes the programme helped her gain 2 full-ride scholarships - 1 to Fresno State and different to the University of North Carolina astatine Charlotte.

"We're capable to get acceptances from different prestigious colleges that privation america due to the fact that of wherever we're coming from, the acquisition that we have," she said. "It benignant of shows however our hard enactment is truly paying disconnected to these universities, and they privation students similar us."

School officials said Bedolla is conscionable 1 illustration of the program's impact.

About 90% of this year's graduating people is expected to gain an associate's grade and/or a transportation certificate from Reedley College earlier continuing connected to four-year universities.

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