High school graduation season is in the home stretch and 80 New York City seniors will take their next steps Wednesday after studying at Food and Finance High School.

Those students found their passion in the kitchen, instead of the classroom, and their futures are heating up, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller.

Seventeen-year-old Jason Urena found his salvation in the heart of New York Citys Hells Kitchen.

Honestly, if I had never found this place, I think I wouldve been just a lowlife kid, Urena said.