Aim High provides a nationally recognized, results-driven, free, summer enrichment program that teaches middle-school students from low income households the skills they need to succeed in high school and beyond.

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  • 8:1 student to teacher ratio
  • 70% teachers of color
  • 25% of faculty are Aim High graduates
  • 98% of Aim High alumni graduate high school on time and enroll in college

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What’s Happening at Aim High
Aim High Gala Highlights: 2019 Edition

On Wednesday, November 6, we hosted our 2019 Annual Gala CONNECTIONS. It was an inspiring evening, and we’re grateful to everyone who attended and sponsored. Thank you for your support and belief in our work. We invite you to revisit the evening by viewing photos of the evening and reading the speech of our Rising…

Lessons from Montgomery

On a 100-degree fall day in Montgomery, Alabama, 14 Aim High staff members reckoned with America’s history of slavery, racial terror lynchings, segregation and mass incarceration at the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice. EJI was founded in 1989 by attorney Bryan Stevenson to provide legal representation for…
Corporate Partners Make a Lasting Impact for Aim High Students

Aim High Career Days provide our students with the opportunity to dream big about life beyond middle school. Thank you to our corporate partners who make this essential part of our summer program possible!  In 2019, sixteen companies hosted 500 Aim High students at their offices across the Bay Area giving our students the opportunity…