Each academic year since its inception in 1965, the Higher Horizons 100 (HH100) program has provided a remedial language and intensive counseling program to 100 disadvantaged ninth-grade students. The goal of the program is to improve the language skills, self-concept, and school adjustment of disadvantaged students having no serious emotional problems, of average intelligence, and with one to three years' reading retardation. Children are selected from eight feeder schools on the basis of these criteria. A team of six teachers and a guidance counselor run the program in a cluster of rooms in the Hartford Public High School. Since the students are specially selected, have their own unique curriculum, and are separated from the other ninth-grade students in the high school, the program has a school-within-a-school atmosphere. Upon successful completion of a year in the program, the HH100 students are transferred to the regular tenth-grade school program. The HH100 program is characterized by small classes, individualized instruction, intensive counseling services, and remedial language instruction integrated within a special ninth-grade curriculum. As an adjunct to the instructional program, a program of cultural activities, civic trips, and guest speakers is provided. (Author/JM)