Last year, every graduating senior at Ballou High School got into college. A WAMU and NPR investigation shows that many of those students missed more than a month of school and struggled academically.

Ballou High School, seen under construction in 2014, reopened in January with a new building. Now the school is going to undergo a major internal reform, and up to half of the staff could be replaced.

Despite a high dropout rate and low test scores at Ballou High School in Washington, D.C., every senior was accepted to at least one college.

DC Police investigate a decomposing body found near Simon Elementary School. Cause, age and gender remain unknown as the ...

The school system named Willie Jackson, principal of Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School — and a Ballou alumnus — as principal of Ballou until the investigation is ...

DC Police responded to Ballou High School after a flag football brawl left students injured. To stream 3NEWS on your phone, you need the 3NEWS app. Download the 3NEWS app ...

Read how the Ballou graduation and college acceptance story continues to unfold, and the unsettling questions about our priorities as a nation it raises.

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 School. Because of ...

What started out as a friendly flag football game ended in a massive brawl on the field. On Wednesday night, DC Police were called to Ballou High School for reports of a large fight. When officers ...

When Tre’Vaughn Allen started his senior year at Ballou High School, he was worried he wouldn’t be able to afford college.Lately, he has little to stress about.“I received about 10-15 ...

Ballou High School's band will be one of the group's representing Washington, DC in the parade ...

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