Agency name with * indicates services offered in Spanish
Education Services
400 W. Main Street, Suite 103 Durham NC, 27701
Phone: (919) 956-8918
Fast-Forward Reading Program (to improve student’s reading level from below the 9th grade level to 10th grade level), GED Program, Post-Secondary Program.
4019 N Roxboro StDurham, NC 27704
Avid Programs exist at Carrington, Chewning, Githens, Lowe’s Grove, Neal, W.G. Pearson, Rogers-Herr, Shepard
For students with GPA 2.0-3.5, IIIs or Ivs on EOGs and acceptable discipline and attendance record.
Durham Performance Learning Center
401 N Driver St 27703
Phone: (919) 560-9190
High school diploma program. Also a small, non-traditional high school geared toward students who are not succeeding in a traditional school. The PLC also utilizes project-based learning, service learning, job shadowing, internships, mentoring, and dual enrollment with technical and four-year colleges. For high school: 16-20 yrs old wanting a nontraditional high school setting and flexible schedule.
Durham Tech Community College
1637 Lawson St
Phone: (919) 686-3626
GED and Adult High School Diploma Program.
Public Library
300 North Roxboro St
Phone: (919) 560-0100
Activities for children, classes, computers, and provides books / DVDs.
Riverdeep Destination Success
3412 Westgate Drive Suite 301
Phone: (919) 403-1936
Web-based database of interactive mathematics and language arts lessons, activities, and tests.
Sales and Service Training Center at Northgate
1058 West Club Blvd, Office Area 2, Suite 227
Phone: (919) 286-0555
High School Diploma.
Teen Career Academy (through Durham Literacy Center)
904 W. Chapel Hill St
Phone: 323-6039, for details and placement test: 489-8383 ext. 28
To help out-of-school youth 16-18 yrs old attain their GED and improve basic literacy skills. All services are free.
3200 Pickett Road
Phone: (919) 489-7464
Half-day program to students to work quietly in teacher-supervised environment in which to complete homework; five-week study skills program for middle and upper school students; keyboard and SAT classes.
Year of Opportunity for Durham Teens (YO:Durham)
1309 Halley Street
Phone: (919) 536-4230
Based on a successful Boston, MA program, the program serves 20-30 students for a 52-week period. Includes a paid-six week Summer Career Academy, team mentoring for the entire year, and a paid job internship during the school year.
Shift NC
3708 Mayfair Street, Durham, NC 27707
Phone: (919) 226-1880
Sexual health initiatives for teens.
Alternative Schools
2614 Crest Street, Durham, NC 27705
Phone: (919) 956-8918
Supports young adults who have dropped out of school in order to reconnect them to the opportunities an education provides.
201 W. Main Street, Durham, NC 27701
Internship opportunities.
1905 Chapel Hill Road, Durham, NC 27707
Phone: (919) 489-8383
Adult literacy, English for other languages, GED, Computer literacy classes.
4915 Prospectus Dr, Suite JDurham, NC 27713
Phone: (919) 293-1133
Provides computers to academically motivated students in need.
1096 US-1, Kittrell, NC 27544
Phone: (252) 438-6161
Job Corps is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training.
Magic Johnson Bridgescape Center
104 N. Driver Street, Durham, NC 27703
Phone: (919) 530-8451
600 N E Main Street, Salemburg, NC 28385
Phone: (910) 525-5520
