Others enroll midway through the year. One of the challenges of poverty is stability, and a portion of Grant parents move during the school year. Grant continually deals with losing familiar students and registering new ones. To keep on top of the changing face of the student body, teachers assess aptitude constantly and get help to the students who need it most. Many of the students have two parents who work, and who consequently can't spend as much time helping with homework.
Some families have a hard time putting three meals a day on the table.
Her job, paid for by Title I funding, is to help teachers try out new classroom strategies. Indeed, teachers tend to stick around at Grant. An extreme example is Diane Stueckle. She started teaching at Grant more than 30 years ago when the school still taught first through eighth grades in the old school building two blocks west. Grant moved into its current location in 1980.