The participants in this project were students at a working class middle school in upstate New
York. The district as a whole has 4,989 students enrolled. The district reports a poverty rate of
29%. There are 1,251 students enrolled at the middle school. The middle school is made up of
52% males and 48% females. The ethnicity breakdown at the middle school is 77% white, 15.6%
Black or African American, 3.8 % Hispanic or Latino, 3.4 % Asian, and 0.2% American Indian
or Alaskan Native.