The latest batch of Everton Academy youngsters have graduated to become full-time players at the Club.
The 12 boys have been registered at the Academy since ages varying between six and 16 and will now work alongside the first-team at the Blues' Finch Farm training ground.
With the scholars having been in school until recently, they were only able to train weekday afternoons and evenings but it is now their full-time job to play for Everton.
The group will bolster the Under-18s squad for next season.
Everton Under-23s boss David Unsworth and members of the Academy Management Team led presentations on Friday to explain to the youngsters and their parents what is required and expected of them now they have stepped up to their new status.