What magic? At Taft High School, people just "started caring."

Twenty-one percent.

That was the graduation rate at Cincinnati's Taft High School less than a decade ago. 

Ninety-five percent.

That's the rate at which Taft students are leaving the school in a cap and gown today.

"So how did the high school, once considered a dead-end dropout factory, become one of the district's best schools?" asks reporter Jessica Brown of The Cincinnati Enquirer. "Those who've lived it say they're not magicians, they just had some good leadership, a good plan, good partners and a bit of luck.

"Some say there was another factor, something less tangible: People started caring."