This Global Partnership for Education (GPE) story is about the impact of catch-up classes in the Central African Republic. The poor quality of education here has led to high dropout rates – 47% for girls and 31% for boys at the primary school level. The government aims to stop that number growing, in part by identifying low-performing students. The GPE-funded remedial education programme keeps children in school by providing additional instruction to students at risk of dropping out to strengthen their reading and math skills.