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But she told her 11-year-old son that the school, which only admits children from low-income families, was not only free but would pay for his college education too. The school, located in Derry Township, requires students to live on campus, and Carroll wondered at first if his mom was punishing him by sending him away.

The school’s manicured campus, about 15 miles from the impoverished Harrisburg neighborhood where he had grown up, was a world apart - “like Hogwarts,” he said, referring to the boarding school in the Harry Potter novels. He had lived for six years at the nation’s wealthiest private school, his days tightly scheduled around studying, sports, and chores. When Dayshawn Carroll graduated from the Milton Hershey School in 2011, his goal of college seemed firmly within his grasp. Sign up for Spotlight PA’s free newsletters

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