INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — City leaders on Wednesday cut the ribbon on The Excel Center Southeast Adult High School.

The new Excel Center inside Paul I. Miller School 114 provides educational options and opportunities for adults to earn a high school diploma, with specific outreach to justice-involved individuals. The school will expand their access to in-person direct instruction classes, along with comprehensive support services like life coaching, free transportation, and childcare.

The Excel Centers in central and southern Indiana have graduated more than 7,000 students since the first campus opened in 2010.

“We are talking about insuring they have the education and skill set they need to proved for themselves and their families. More than that though, we are talking about giving people in our city the second chance that they all deserve.”

Joe Hogsett, Indianapolis mayor