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Spirit NYS initiates Operations We launched in September 2021 at Franklin Upper. In Late 2021, and early 2022, we extended operations to two other schools, Edison and Northeast High School. Enrollment included 22 at Franklin, 10 at Edison, and 7 at Northeast High School. Our primary mission is to enable homeless students to remain in…

In 2020, John Thompson and Mary Thompson founded a non-profit organization – SPIRITNYS, that aids to prevent dropouts for home insecure teenagers in the city of Rochester. The homeless students used to be labeled as “invisible millions” nationwide. In the city of Rochester, the high school graduation rate for homeless students is merely 40%. Thus,…

Fact 1 Nearly 1 out of every 10 New York public school students were homeless last year. To put that into perspective, consider an average sized friend group is around 10 people. Amongst every ten friends that you have, you will have one homeless friend. Let’s say you run into 30 different people at school…