Holy Cross is accepting donations for the DPS School Supply Drive through August 11. Click to download this 'greatest needs' list, and watch for sales while shopping. Drop off your purchased items in the bins located in the gathering space at Holy Cross Church.
Crayons2Calculators (C2C) was founded in 2006 with the vision of equipping every Durham classroom with appropriate school supplies to enable students’ learning, growth, and academic success. In the 15 years since its founding, Crayons2Calculators has contributed significantly toward meeting the “school supplies gap.” Each year, the organization serves over 1,000 teachers and distributes more than $100,000 worth of supplies.
Holy Cross has supported this drive for several years, and is doing so again this year.
DPS - Fast Facts
- C2C’s services cover the 53 schools and roughly 32,000 students in the Durham Public School district, many of whom cannot afford school supplies.
- 15,311 Durham children – roughly one in four – live at or below the federal poverty level.
- Further, the share of students who qualify for free or reduced lunch across all DPS schools ranges from 17.29% to 99.01%.
- In total, over half (51.56%) of all DPS students qualified for free and reduced lunch in the 2020-2021 school year.
Thank you for your support of the 2023 C2C campaign.
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