A Louisville alternative school is beating the odds on true truancy and dropout rates.

Breckenridge Metro High School takes a special approach with its students and one that is seen as a 10% increase in daily attendance rates in the last year.

We talk about change in elevating a student by changing their playground is the message we send.

And what that means is helping them figure out how to be successful in their community, change whatever it is about their community that that led them to trouble to begin with or get out if they need to.

All of our students are placed here for various reasons that that have caused them to have to be removed from from the comprehensive school system.

I actually was surprised, like I never thought alternative school was going to have more devotion and more power than a regular school.

Do we meet with every student that is placed here?

From from the get we have their parent come in and we meet with the student and we have a long conversation about what their goals are, what they want to achieve in life, and what led them here.

And then we lay out a plan for every student from day one.

Okay.

This is what you said you want to do and what you want to be.

Here's the plan on how we're going to get you there.

Your job is to work with us to execute.

What are you interested in?

How do you like to learn?

And then we connect everything they do in this building to that.

This school means a better chance is a better way to be helped.

A better way to be Understand?

Because, like I can say, some public schools, like regular schools, are some of the schools they understand you, but they don't.

They can't really connect with you because they go by their books rules.

Here.

You still go by our books and rules, but they actually can sit down below.

Okay, let me understand you.

And not just a figure of you or a you.

They we want you to be.

You know, there's a reason to get up and come to school.

They know they're going to come and get to do what they're passionate about, not just sit in a desk and do worksheets.

And so that's how we that's how we've managed to change, flip the script, so to speak, and get them in the building.

The support team here, no matter what they support you even going, they're going to support you.

They're just I'm a one call away and they really are like, they really are there for you, like a third family or a second family to anybody.

From my experience that I'm a lot to be looked at as a bad person, like a wrong like a person who can't get out of something.

But I feel like the longer to we're gonna be here and the more you get to know and you see that they don't look at you like that.

Oh, you going to go to school?

I'm not who they paint me a picture of because of that one mistake I made.

More than what that is.

Here you go.

Well, Kamya Bush graduated early this past semester.

She received the Black History Makers of Tomorrow scholarship and will go to South Carolina State University.

Good for her.