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- EIN 27-0932292
- 13947 Amber Crst San Antonio TX 78249-1593 USA
- https://sites.google.com/site/salvstudios
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Christianity, Religion, Religious Media & Communications, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Salvation Studios coaches coach and mentors at risk and underprivileged youth by helping them develop marketable skills through the development and distribution of family friendly Christ centered video games.
Programs: Coach and Mentor At Risk and Underprivileged Youth
- Every 4 minutes a student drops out of a Texas public school. 2
- 2008 numbers are no better than the first report released in 19862. 2
- In Bexar County, the 40% attrition rate is higher than state figures. 2
- 10,363 students in the Class of 2008 left school without a diploma. 2
- At current pace, the state will lose an additional 2.3 million to 6 million students before reaching an attrition rate of zero in 2042. 3
- Children in South Texas are facing challenges that sometimes lead them to making decisions on their own that they are not fully equipped to make. 4
- Texas schools are losing 1/3 of their students. 4
- In the 2007-08 school year, 2,256,606 (48%) of the 4,671,493 public school students in Texas were identified as at risk of dropping out of school, the same percentage as the previous year.
- The class of 2007 Drop Out Rate for Economically Disadvantaged Youth is 17.3% and for At Risk Youth is 18.1%. 5
- Across the 27 TAKS subject tests administered in Grades 3-11, the passing rates for economically disadvantaged students trailed those for all students tested. 5
- Passing rates for economically disadvantaged students ranged from 4 percentage points (Grade 11) to 6 percentage points (Grade 10) lower than those for all students tested. 5