Aspire Public Schools – Aspire Public Schools is a K-12 school system focused on improving public education by preparing underserved students for college, training highly effective teachers and sharing innovative best practices.

Empowering Minds. Transforming Futures.

Since 1999, our purpose has always been to prepare our 15,500+ TK–12 scholars for success in college, career, and life. Our greater Aspire community of scholars, teachers, leaders, staff, and families is focused on ensuring every child’s aspirations are within reach.

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Our Vision

Aspire scholars are prepared and empowered to build a fulfilling and liberated future for themselves and their communities.

Our Mission

Provide a rigorous, joyful academic experience that cultivates our scholars’ skills, talents, and gifts, such that they may pursue and persist in college or any post-secondary pathway that is authentic to their identities;

Promote inclusivity and disrupt systems that have historically oppressed marginalized communities, including Black, Latino/a/x, Indigenous, and People of Color; and

Nurture our scholars’ pride in their abilities, identities, and communities.

Our Locations

Bay Area

Richmond, Oakland, East Palo Alto

Central Valley

Stockton, Sacramento, Modesto

Los Angeles

Huntington Park, Los Angeles, South Gate

Aspire By The Numbers

Students Enrolled

15,500+

Teammates

2,180+

Student Retention Rate

91%

Graduation Rate

96%

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Introducing Aspire's updated motto: Empowering Minds. Transforming Futures.

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Aspire's Latest News

EdSurge: Schools Can’t Find Teachers. Do States Need More Credential Rules or Fewer?

In The News

Congratulations to our 2025 Teacher and Teammate of the Year award winners!

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Spectrum News 1: South Gate school implements co-teaching model for students with disabilities

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Equity

We live in a society that provides some groups more or fewer opportunities based solely on factors they do not control. Read Aspire’s beliefs.

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Quality

Student achievement is a critical measure of success for our schools. Learn more about Aspire students' academic progress.

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Innovation

Alder GSE for teacher training and certification. Schoolzilla for data analytics and insights. See how innovation is in our DNA.

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Website Accessibility Information Aspire Public Schools is committed to ensuring accessibility of its website for students, parents, and members of the Aspire community, including those with disabilities. Aspire’s websites will be maintained in accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (“Section 504”) and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“Title II”). Aspire shall ensure that all new, updated, and existing webpages are accessible to all persons, including those with disabilities. Aspire shall ensure that all website content or functionality on the District’s websites shall conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, Level AA standards, or updated equivalents of these guidelines. If you have trouble accessing any of our webpages or documents, please contact us, as we are continually striving to improve the experience for all of our visitors and users. Please help us respond to you in the most beneficial way by indicating the nature of your accessibility problem, the preferred format(s) in which you want to receive the material, and your contact information. A student, parent or member of the public who wishes to submit a complaint regarding a violation of Section 504 or Title II related to accessibility of any Aspire’s webpages that are developed or maintained by Aspire may initiate a complaint pursuant to our Uniform Complaint Procedure Policy, which can be found on the "Accessibility" page under “Discover Aspire.” Aspire strives to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability as comprehensively as possible on this website. We are continually seeking solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall web accessibility. In the meantime, should you experience any difficulty in accessing the Aspire Public Schools website, please do not hesitate to contact communications team at at 510-434-5000 or communications@aspirepublicschools.org (access "Contact" page below for communications team email hyperlink).

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