Global Kid's NYC-based programs involve more than 12,600 youth and educators per year. The youth in Global Kids' programs are racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse, and the majority of participants identify themselves as African American, Latino, South Asian, Middle Eastern, East Asian, or Caribbean. Most attend schools with poor attendance and low graduation rates in underserved and politically marginalized communities. In 2007-2008, participants come from the 21 public high schools in which GK conducts school-based programs, as well as from a number of other high schools located throughout the five boroughs of New York City. 

Impressively, within a school system that graduates just over 50% of the youth that enter it, each year more than 90% of the seniors in GK's leadership programs, graduate from high school, and the vast majority attend college with scholarships earned for their leadership potential and participation in GK activities. Many of these students had been labeled at risk of school dropout. 

Recent graduates have attended or are attending Adelphi University, Bard College, Baruch College, Bay State College, Berklee College of Music, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Brandeis University, Columbia University, DeVry University, Fordham University, Franklin and Marshall College, Global College of Long Island University, Hunter College, Lafayette University, LaGuardia Community College, Medgar Evers College, Monroe College, Mount Holyoke College, New York University, Pace University, Pennsylvania State University, Queensbourough Community College, Rider University, St. John’s University, SUNY Albany, SUNY Oswego, SUNY Stonybrook, Tufts University, University of Hartford, University of New Haven, University of Maryland, York College, and more.

Alumni are now pursuing careers in law, education, business, health, and many other fields.