What was done out of necessity last year has now become a tradition at Bridgeport’s Capital Preparatory Harbor School. For the second year, its graduation ceremony was held in the format of a car-parade. One by one, cars filled with newly anointed high school graduates rolled through the streets of Bridgeport Wednesday. It was a celebration, that was hard.
“We send them to a four-year college because that’s what we do,” said Perry.
Perry says the network of Capital Preparatory schools has had a long-standing success rate of propelling students to the next level.
“We’re college preparatory school,” he said. “It doesn’t matter the color of our children. It doesn’t matter where they come from. We know where they’re going.”
They’re going to a wide range of schools, including UCONN, Wesleyan and Colgate. Students say the key to this success is simple.
“There’s two words for that. One is care and the second word is family,” said graduate Brenden Roseboro, who is headed to UCONN.