Ensuring Equitable Access to Rigorous Courses

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Equal Opportunity Schools
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Ensuring students of color and low-income students have equitable access to rigorous courses.

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Equal Opportunity Schools’ mission is to ensure that students of color and low-income students have equitable access to America’s most academically intense high school programs and succeed at the highest levels.

Our partnership model is consultative, collaborative, and requires a commitment to specific and measurable results. Equal Opportunity Schools (EOS) has helped more than 650 schools identify students of color and low-income students who qualify for, but are missing from Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) classes. Working together, we successfully enroll them and support their academic success.


“I try to get A’s because I know I’m capable of doing it…I [also] wanted to be a mentor because I can be the one person like, ‘AP, it’s not hard.’ If a freshman or a sophomore says it, that’s going to make other people be like, ‘Then we should try it too.’”
– Anna, 10th Grader, Chicago Metro


“Teachers in AP classes don’t want you to fail. My AP Econ and Gov teacher makes study sessions all the time before we’re going to take a unit test. My AP Calculus and AP Physics teacher…whenever you have a question you can just go up to him and he’ll sit down at lunch and explain to you.”
– Bruno, 12th Grader, Southern California


“The encouragement that was given helped me a lot…[My teacher] didn’t have a favorite student so it made you feel welcome. Some kids aren’t really comfortable with speaking. I know my teacher respected that.”
– Dora, 11th Grader, Atlanta Metro


“I was glad I took AP. As you catch on, as you’d practice more, you start understanding it more and it’s something unique. It made me feel like that at the end of it I gained a lot of knowledge and like the vocabulary because it was really different compared to honors, especially the way the teacher talks…”
– Samuel 10th Grader, North Carolina High School


“Someone came in to school [and] talked with us about AP classes. She showed me the apple on my profile…[where] a teacher said they thought I could take it [an AP class]…that was the point where I was like, ‘If they think I can take it, maybe I can’, and that’s what got me to sign-up.”
– Elliana, 11th Grade, Northern IL High School

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