Calls to shut down a Baltimore high school are growing Thursday following an investigation that found hundreds of students are failing, with the top grade point averages hovering at an abysmal 0.13.
 

Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in West Baltimore is being accused of repeatedly promoting students from grade to grade despite failing GPAs.
 

Tiffany France, one of the mothers profiled in the Project Baltimore investigation, said she thought her 17-year-old son would be receiving his diploma in June but learned that after four years of attending Augusta Fells, her son is being moved back to the ninth grade.
 

According to transcripts, France's son passed only three classes in his four years of high school, earning a 0.13 grade point average. What's worse is that her son's GPA puts him near the top half of this class. He was also late or absent to school 359 days.
 

France claims she didn't know any of this until last month and said the school never told her that her son was being promoted through grades even though he failed almost every class he attended. His school records show he failed Spanish I and Algebra I but was promoted to Algebra II and Spanish II. He failed English II but was promoted to English III.
 

"What does that do to his confidence?" France told Project Baltimore. "As he grows, years to come. What is his dreams? He don't know what to do. He probably feels like a complete failure."
 

She added that she, too, is at a loss and wants answers. "I refuse to let him be a statistic and really just be nothing," she said. "That's not going to happen on my watch. It's not going to happen."
 

France, who has three children and works three jobs, believes the blame should fall squarely on the school and said Augusta Fells failed its students by not doing more to inform parents of dire situations.
 

"I'm just assuming that if you are passing, that you have the proper things to go to the next grade and the right grades, you have the right credits," she said.
 

France has pulled her son out of Augusta Fells, and he is now enrolled in an accelerated school program at Francis M. Wood High School in West Baltimore. France is told that if her son works hard and attends class regularly, he could be in a cap and gown by 2023.
 

Like France, Samuel Harkless said he has watched in frustration as his niece failed class after class only to be promoted to the next grade. His niece moved from the NACA II school after it closed and enrolled in Digital Harbor High school.
 

"I said, 'She shouldn't be promoted,'" he told FOX45. "And the principal said, 'Well, the system basically said she had enough credits, so we just aren't going to fight it.'"
 

Report cards given to FOX45 show Harkless's niece ended her junior year with a 1.2 GPA, despite failing several classes. Her latest progress report from her senior year at Digital Harbor High shows even more failing grades.
 

"She doesn't go," Harkless said. "So how is she passing? This ought to be illegal. She's just being passed through the system."
 

Part of France's and other parents' frustrations are that school officials, as well as elected city officials, are largely staying pretty quiet about the investigation.
 

No one seems to want to take accountability or go on the record as to why so many students have fallen through the cracks.
 

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott received backlash Wednesday when he implied during a press conference that education lapses in city schools were tied to a lack of funding.
 

"We have a school district that's been underfunded by $300 million a year by our state," he said.
 

The comment brought a swift rebuke from Maryland's Public Policy Institute president and chief executive officer Christopher Summers, who said the city doesn't have an underfunding problem but instead an overspending problem.
 

"Baltimore City alone is spending 25.2% above the national average," he said.

 

Augusta Fells, which receives more than $5.3 million a year in taxpayer funds, recently received two stars by the Maryland State Department of Education, which ranks schools from one to five stars based on criteria including attendance, high school graduation, curriculum, and achievement on tests.

 

The Washington Examiner has also reached out to Baltimore City councilmembers as well as to the school board but has not yet gotten a reply.