EPAM Rotary’s own Dr. Josh Swanson gave us an update on the accomplishments of the district over the last year including straight A’s across the board on the statewide Niche Report. EP was the only district to have straight A’s. As a result of support of the community and taxpayers, the district has been able to lower class sizes and close gaps in academics across the board. EPHS offers 277 courses including 20 AP courses. In 2019, 733 students took AP exams and 35% left with at least one score of 3 or higher enabling them to earn 1,215 credits which equate to $822,798 in public school tuition or over $5,000,000 in private school tuition. Sixteen students are national merit scholars and three students earned perfect ACT scores. Josh thanked the community for the support of Designing Pathways 2019 and they are already working on the improvements to Central Middle School which were a large part of the program.