Higher Achievement

Higher Achievement’s rigorous after-school and summer academic program gives youth from at-risk communities their best opportunity to succeed in middle school —and in life. The research-based program challenges middle school students to meet their full potential in three key areas: academics, social skills, and leadership. When students get the skills and support they need to invest in their own success, they discover that they can be scholars. On average, 95% of Higher Achievement scholars graduate high school on time and 65% either improve their grades of maintain a's and B's. Higher Achievement, held after school and during the summer, operates three achievement centers in Baltimore: East Baltimore at City Springs Elementary/Middle School, South Baltimore at Carter G. Woodson Elementary/Middle School and West Baltimore at Lakeland Elementary/Middle School.
Category: Careers and Education
Support: Financially Supported
Personnel [Student] Supported
Location: School Based
Street Address: 1500 Union Mill Ave., Suite 2600, 21211
Website: http://www.higherachievement.org
Contact: Corinthian Kelly
Email: info@higherachievement.org
Phone: (410) 752-7753
Internal Department: JHU Office of Work, Life and Engagement
Email: worklife@jhu.edu
Phone: (443) 997-7000
Internal Department: JHU Center for Social Concern
Email: volunteer@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-4777
Keywords: afterschool
summer camp
academics
social skills
leadership