ColinsMum,

NAPS is for very, very few people. The greater Eugene, Oregon, area that would feed The First Model at the University of Oregon has a population base of 337,870 people, and I target a NAPS enrollment of no more than 34 students per grade level. A major high school with an enrollment of 1,000 students might release just two or three sophomore students to NAPS per year � fewer than ten students total at the three NAPS grade levels combined. In some years, some major high schools might release no sophomore students to NAPS. I am talking about the very rare student � the student who by him/herself can raise the curve in an Advanced Placement class by ten points. Those students are out there, and their needs are not being taken care of by the available public high school curriculum.

Steven A. Sylwester