Students can also perform community service, or a special project.
The students have performed near the state average for the last five years.
The pressure is on, though, for the students to perform.
"The point is to find out which students are not performing well, and to do something about it."
Students perform better when they show up for class healthy and ready to learn.
During the 2005-2006 school year, students performed over 630,000 hours of service in both local and international communities.
Students there perform well, with 78.5 percent reading at or above grade level.
In all of them, most students perform far below grade level.
A dance teacher and her students also perform a few steps.
By almost every measure, students in District 9 perform well below the city average.