Finding a place to go for credit recovery, a place to go before football games and a place to type up a paper may be difficult this year for students who relied on three key after-school programs.

Each year, the district applies for the ASSET Grant which funds the After School Program, Apex, and the Homework Center. This year, the entire district was denied this grant.

“As of this moment there will be no After School Program or Apex,” Principal Andre Phillips said. The Homework Center is also in jeopardy.

His first priority is getting the Apex program back, he said. “I’m aware that a lot of students need the credit recovery.”

Junior Leslei Lopez agrees. “(Credit recovery) is what most people at Stagg need,” she said. She is one of those people.

Senior Salvador Ramirez fears his graduation is in jeopardy without the program. “I’d probably be able to squeeze it into my schedule,” he said about his needed second semester of geometry. However, he feels he should be able to have more “interesting classes” his last year in high school.

Lopez sympathizes with the underclassmen and believes the upperclassman need to “do something to encourage them to stay on task and not mess up their first two years like I did,” she said.

“Half of my friends do need (Apex) to graduate,” Ramirez said. Underclassmen may be in jeopardy as well as far as graduation, according to him, because Apex is no longer a safety net until alternative funding is found.