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Results

• Over 20,000 students have been served to date
• Over 280,000 students have benefited from the extended impact of Puente training
• Retention of Puente students is 92%, compared with 60% for community college students statewide
• Community Colleges with Puente programs transfer 44 percent more Latino students to the University of California than colleges without Puente 

Puente is the only post-secondary program in California ever to receive the prestigious national Innovations in American Government Award