Employing restorative practice principles, focusing on de-escalation strategies as professional development, and carving out time for students to partake in a unique, cutting edge program called Quiet Time have helped the school think differently about discipline and the lessons that come from poor decisions that some adolescents make.
Over the past few years, the school has experienced continued improvement of attendance rates and reduction of truancy rates for African-American students; however, the overall student body has plateaued just over 91%.