The Importance of the DSO's Private School Format

As said in an SSE analysis performed by UNICEF in 2006, “despite the fact that 92.7% of all children and adolescents are enrolled in Basic Education (first to eighth grade), there is a problem of repetition,  especially after the third grade (14.6%) since there is automatic promotion from the first and second grades. There is also a problem [of] dropouts with 6.4% of children and adolescents dropping out of school early, in many cases to devote themselves to paid work.” As of 2016, the CIA World Factbook found that nearly 10% of the Dominican population remains legally illiterate, and a lower class Dominican student's education rarely extends beyond a high school diploma.

Areas like La Ureña, where the Dominica School and Orphanage is located, are especially susceptible to these types of issues because they do not have the same access to proper public schooling as those in areas closer to the capital or a major city. Due to a lack of funding and improper administration, public school in much of the DR does not prepare students for a future of higher education to the same degree as private schools like the DSO. This means that the DSO is one of the few institutions available to the people in its area that can provide hope for improving its community's education and providing a bright future for younger generations. 

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