All students who graduate from Downtown College Prep will be:

1. College-Ready: As first-generation college-bound students, DCP graduates are prepared for the academic and personal challenges of four-year colleges and universities.

2. Literate: DCP students learn to read and collect information independently, think systematically about that information, and express their thinking precisely and fluently.

3. Numerate: DCP students learn to be fluent with numbers and necessary mathematical processes and are able to use numbers to understand and assess problems in all disciplines.

4. Representatives of DCP's values: DCP students learn to adopt the school's values of Ganas (Desire), Comunidad (Community), and Orgullo (Pride) in all their work in high school and beyond.