Students Rising Above (SRA) is a CBS 5 and CBS5.com series of news stories, web features, and public service announcements, profiling low-income, at-risk Bay Area high school seniors who are overcoming tremendous obstacles.Wendy Tokuda has been reporting these stories for more than 10 years, and brought the project here to CBS5 in 2007. Make A Tax Deductible Donation Find Out More About The SRA Organization
This school year, 20 students have been selected for SRA from high schools all over the Bay Area.
Our scholars are attending colleges across the country, including Harvard, Williams, Ohio Weslyan, UC Berkeley and the University of Santa Clara.
Our graduates have their own alumni group and have gone on to lawschool, grad school and into the working world.
Students are recommended by their teachers and counselors, and chosen for their carachter and academic achievement and promise. More than 140 students have gone on to such universities as Brown Princeton, Morehouse and UC Berkeley.