On Saturday, October 6, just hours before the big Homecoming Dance, Cistercian hosted STAIRS, which is a local tutoring and mentoring program dedicated to giving disadvantaged youth an opportunity to “step up” at a crucial point in their education process, namely the transition between middle school and high school. The program offers tutoring in English and Math, and helps students to form good study habits and other life skills. The goal of the program is to help all their students who apply to a private, charter, magnet or arts and science high school be accepted upon their graduation from the eighth grade. In addition to opening our school facilities to STAIRS this year, we are very proud that three upper school students are participating in the program as mentors.
