Middle College & Tax Credit
Middle College and Tax Credit
Springfield Public Schools and Ozarks Technical Community College collaboratively established the Middle College to provide an outreach for underperforming, underrepresented students to realize their potential within a contemporary college environment while achieving their high school diploma, learning career and technical skills, earning college credits, participating in internships, and developing leadership skills. This program will increase academic pathways for greater student achievement and persistence to graduation while maximizing a student's potential for success outside of the traditional high school setting.
The Middle College is for underperforming students that are perceived to have greater academic abilities and could achieve at a higher level than his or her present performance but for an array of internal or external reasons is not reaching his/her potential.
The Middle College is for underrepresented students that are determined to be in a group that generally lacks accessibility to higher education due to several contributing factors or conditions including, but not limited to, ethnic and minority groups, first generation college students, low socioeconomic factors, non-traditional career choices, family difficulties, and other life circumstances that may inhibit one's ability to attend college.
If you have the desire to make a donation to the Middle College program at OTC, you would be qualified to apply for the Missouri Department of Economic Development Youth Opportunities Program Tax Credit. For more information about the Missouri Tax Credit, see Missouri Tax Credit FAQ.
To learn more about the Middle College, see Middle College.