Nashua High is Looking for a Change

Last year more than 200 seniors didn't finish high school on time in Nashua.

That means 24 percent of the senior class either transferred, enrolled in a G.E.D. program, came back for a fifth year, or just disappeared.

Dropout rates have been a nagging problem in the city recently.

Nashua High School administrators recognize many students are leaving because nothing is holding them there.

In response, school officials are reorganizing.

In the first of this two part series, NHPR's Dan Gorenstein looks at what Nashua High is doing to stop failing its students.