This investigation sought to measure the success rate and frequency of drop/withdraw in a mentored education paraprofessional cohort group as compared to a control group at a predominantly Hispanic two-year college. The project was funded by a college student success grant aimed at developing innovative ways to increase the retention and completion rates of at-risk students. The mentored cohort group consisted of 35 education paraprofessionals (n=35) who had a history of failure and/or repetitious course challenges. The control group faced similar challenges and participated in the same courses (in different course sections) but received no structured mentoring. Findings included a significant increase in retention and completion rates while maintaining an extremely low frequency of student drop/withdrawals as compared to the control group. (Contains 8 figures.)