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Our purpose is to prepare our 17,000+ TK-12 students for success in college, career, and life. We are Aspire Public Schools - 40 community-based public charter schools in California and Tennessee.
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College For Certain
Our community of students, teachers, leaders, staff, and families are focused on ensuring every child’s aspirations – including college – are within reach.
Our Purpose
In 1998, we set out to open and operate small, high-quality charter schools in low-income neighborhoods in order to increase the academic performance of underserved students, develop effective educators, share successful practices with other forward-thinking educators, and catalyze change in public schools nationwide. Nearly twenty years later, our focus remains the same. Our schools are free, public schools serving grades TK-12 with a clear focus on College For Certain, even for our youngest scholars. Aspire currently operates 40 schools across three California regions (Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and the Central Valley) and one Tennessee region (Memphis).
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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.
Quality
Student achievement is a critical measure of success for our schools. Learn more about Aspire students' academic progress.
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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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).