OUR PROGRAMS

"I feel incredibly grateful to have had RISE as my advisors and mentors, and I cannot thank them enough for their dedication and commitment to my academic success. Your impact on my life will never be forgotten."

- Gideon Dilebo, Roosevelt STAY

“KEEP UP” TUTORING

In our Keep Up program, professional tutors—averaging 20 years of classroom experience—are embedded directly into partner school classrooms, working side-by-side with teachers to deliver real-time, targeted academic support.

WORDSTARS

WordSTARS is a high-impact, five-week summer literacy “bootcamp” designed for high school students reading far below grade level—many by two or more years. Through small-group instruction, culturally relevant texts, and personalized reading plans, participants make extraordinary progress: on average, gaining two full grade levels in reading ability in just one summer.

COLLEGE PREP PLUS

 College Prep Plus begins in the 11th grade and follows students through their sophomore year of college, ensuring they not only access higher education but succeed in it. CPP offers SAT/ACT preparation, application coaching, financial aid guidance, FAFSA support, campus visits, and ongoing persistence support. The results speak for themselves: CPP alumni graduate from college at four times the national rate for low-income students.

This year, RISE partnered with Learn24 to provide College Prep Services to over 80 students across all three Opportunity Academies in Washington, DC (Ballou STAY, Roosevelt STAY, and Luke C. Moore). RISE is excited to announce that during SY 24/25, students from these second chance schools in the district successfully completed the program and were accepted into colleges like Trinity, University of the District of Columbia, and Norfolk State University. College is possible and RISE, with Learn24 has proven this to our youth! 

Stay tuned for more college tours, acceptances, and enrollments!

GRADUATE SERVICES

RISE stays in touch with over 100 alumni each year to assist with career counseling and job placement.