By twelfth grade, he noticed that the girls at school whom he found most attractive were freshmen.

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The Collective Focus, led by the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh in partnership with the AAAT and supported by the Pittsburgh Public Schools and the United Way of Allegheny County, has identified a two-pronged intervention approach wherein African American Achievement Trust participants volunteer as sixth grade mentors and twelfth grade Graduation Coaches.

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It ranked second to last in the state, and some high schools had twelfth-grade dropout rates approaching 40%.

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