LANSDOWNE, Va. — Limestone’s Maine School of Science and Mathematics is one of a number of elite high schools chosen to receive a grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
The foundation recently announced awards totaling $500,000 to selective public high schools in six states to support the schools’ programs that prepare academically talented, low-income students for admission to and graduation from these top schools.
MSSM will receive a grant of $36,000.
“We want to give low-income students who are really smart an equal opportunity to succeed,” said Harold Levy, executive director of the Cooke Foundation. “Helping high-ability students with financial need fulfill their potential has significant implications for the social mobility among America’s lower-income families and for the strength of our economy.”
The other schools awarded are in Arkansas, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
