Poverty impacts students throughout Athens County, Ohio [View all]

The Athens Messenger
Poverty impacts students throughout Athens County
Sunday, October 5, 2014
By SARAH HAWLEY Messenger Staff Journalist

Poverty strikes many in Southeast Ohio and does not discriminate in age. Many students in Athens County’s schools know this all too well.

In three of the five school districts in Athens County at least 65 percent of students are considered “economically disadvantaged” according to the state report card released last month. Trimble Local has 67.8 percent of its population fall into that classification, with Nelsonville-York at 65.2 percent and Federal Hocking at 65 percent.

Alexander has 49.7 percent considered economically disadvantaged and Athens has 39.7 percent...

...Economic poverty impacts students in various ways. Poverty brings about a level of stress not only in adults but in children as well, as they have to worry if their basic needs will be meet on a daily basis....

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