Trayvon McKoy, Ballou High School senior "Often, black students in an urban environment are not told that college could be the next step," says Yetunde Reeves, the school's principal. Last school ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — The entire senior class at Ballou High School in Southeast Washington has applied for college for the first time. AVID's the name of the college prep classes at Ballou High ...

Sponsor Message Seven months from now, Ballou High School will celebrate another graduating class. The current senior class is also working toward a 100 percent college acceptance rate this year.

The District’s top school official removed the principal at Ballou Senior High School from her post Monday amid allegations the Southeast Washington school graduated students who were ...

About two dozen students at Ballou Senior High School walked out of their classes yesterday morning to protest the school system's decision to place their principal on administrative leave.

Ballou Senior High School were passed despite extensive absences. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered the city's investigation in December. The report by D.C. consulting firm Alvarez and Marsal found ...

Remarkably, the month before the entire graduating class of Frank W. Ballou Senior High School in Washington, D.C., had been accepted to two- or four-year colleges—that had never happened before ...

A standout football running back at Ballou Senior High School, who had expressed concern to his father that his life was in danger because of a dispute with another student, was gunned down ...

Last June was a triumphant moment for Frank W. Ballou Senior High School, a predominantly black school located in Southeast Washington, D.C. After years of dismal student test scores and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - City officials are unveiling plans for the new Frank W. Ballou Senior High School in southeast Washington. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray will help unveil the design at an event Friday ...

Band director Darrell Watson's mission is to instill and inspire young musicians with the senior high school band. For Watson, a Ballou alumnus himself, directing a band is a labor of love.