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AVID - Advancement Via Individual Determination

AVID

What is AVID?

AVID is a regularly scheduled elective class that prepares students with academic potential for success in college

AVID Application

Are you interested in joining AVID for the 2024-2025 school year? Contact the AVID Site Coordinator at your campus for application instructions.

Desert Ridge Junior High School: Andrew Clarke
Desert Ridge High School: Stefanie Fortney

AVID Benefits

  • Attend a four-year university
  • Become an educated, responsible leader
  • Improve grade point average significantly
  • Know grades in all classes every three weeks
  • Participate in weekly tutorials in all subject areas
  • Improve writing, inquiry, collaboration, and reading skills
  • Focus daily on developing critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Learn to successfully engage in debates and Socratic Seminars
  • Increase motivation
  • Learn to identify and improve areas of weakness to ensure success in high school and college
  • Participate in college and career investigation
  • Learn time-management, goal-setting, and money-management skills
  • Learn habits of success to understand the power of personal choice in school and life
  • Receive one-on-one mentoring and assistance with a four-year plan, college essays and applications, and financial aid forms through on-site AVID computer lab
  • Increase scholarship opportunities

AVID Rewards

  • AVID students are on their way to four-year universities.
  • AVID students build friendships with other motivated individuals.
  • AVID students become leaders at school.
  • AVID students become stars for their community.
  • AVID students become more than they ever imagined.