City Year Los Angeles

City Year Los Angeles was founded in 2007, and over the last 17 years we have deployed over 3,000 AmeriCorps members to schools across Los Angeles, serving over 4 million hours. We have provided more than 24,000 students with direct, one-to-one academic intervention and over 150,000 students with whole-school support. Since our founding, we have deployed ACMs exclusively to schools in neighborhoods experiencing the inequitable distribution of educational resources, including Boyle Heights, Koreatown, Pico-Union, South L.A., and Watts.

CYLA provides services through our signature Whole School Whole Child program, which allows us to add capacity to under-resourced schools and help meet the holistic needs of all students by integrating academic and social-emotional support throughout the school day. Teams of diverse CYLA AmeriCorps Members serve full-time in schools alongside teachers as Student Success Coaches, connecting with students and providing evidence-based academic and social-emotional support to help students and schools succeed.

City Year believes all children can succeed. Every day, our AmeriCorps members serve as student success coaches, helping students build on their strengths and cultivate social, emotional and academic skills - from mastering fractions to learning to work in teams. City Year partners with schools in under-resourced communities to create learning environments where all students have the tools to grow and fully engage in their education.

This school year, City Year Los Angeles partnered for the first time with the Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD). Inglewood is prioritizing City Year as part of their turnaround strategy to help further the district’s mission to nurture, educate and graduate students who are self-responsible and self-disciplined. This grant would support City Year’s continued presence in its two IUSD pilot schools - Crozier Middle School and Woodworth-Monroe Academy - with a long-term plan to expand onto more Inglewood campuses.

City Year Los Angeles unites young leaders of all backgrounds, known as AmeriCorps members, for a year of full-time service to help students succeed and stay on-track to graduate. AmeriCorps members monitor attendance, guide students through their social-emotional development and provide students with data-driven, individualized interventions in math and English. AmeriCorps members also help schools establish a positive culture and climate where students are encouraged to reach their potential.

City Year Los Angeles connects Angelenos across the city to beautify school campuses, making them more welcoming, vibrant places for students to learn.

In the next five years, nearly 1 million California STEM jobs will need to be filled. City Year will pilot a STEM curriculum in 3 high schools to better prepare our students for these opportunities.

City Year LA and Partnership for LA Schools will build on our successful partnership by expanding to Roosevelt HS and Jordan HS.