Gordon arrived months later, in 2013. Since then, the stock of the school at 41st and Ludlow Streets in University City has soared. The school's enrollment, though still small, has risen considerably, from 250 to 313. Its climate has improved, and so have its academics – to the point where it was named the city's most improved high school this year. But it still educates mainly students from the neighborhood — kids with mental-health needs and complicated pasts, kids who are interested in poetry and business. Eighty-six percent live in poverty.