BALTIMORE, MD. (WBFF) - "In the past years we see about 10 to 15 of the murder victims in every year in Baltimore being under the age of 10," said Sean Kennedy with the Maryland Public Policy Institute.
 

Kennedy speaking on Fox 45’s Project Baltimore investigation and the revelation that a student at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts with a flunking .13 G.P.A could rank near the top half of his class.
 

"In the long term getting people economic opportunities and hope, we are seeing so many students their lives being robbed of them," said Kennedy.
 

The link between poor education and incarceration, how crime the city can't seem to get a grip could be tied what's happening at schools like Augusta Fells.
 

According to some of the most recent data from Bureau of Justice Statistics dropouts are 3.5 times more likely to be arrested than high school graduates.
 

A broken public education system that Dr. Rayshawn Ray, a Sociologist at the University of Maryland, says can make it hard for children in the city to escape that life.
 

"In other words the higher your level of education, the lower your propensity to commit a crime and to also get caught doing crimes, particularly violent crimes.”
 

Kennedy argues the student and the school at the heart of Project Baltimore’s story is just the tip of a deep seated issue in a city where he says based on state testing 8 out 10 students at 8 out of 10 schools, are also failing.
 

"I don’t mean grades, I don’t mean graduation, I mean when they took an objective test they couldn’t get a proficient score on math or english, that is just utter failure for so many of these students," he said.