Teach For America Placement Schools

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Where Corps Members Teach

Los Angeles corps members currently teach at 107 schools across three school districts, four early childhood education centers, and 18 charter management organizations ranging from South Pasadena in the northeast to Compton in the southern area of the city. Teaching placements are available in early childhood education, bilingual education, special education, general subject at the elementary and middle school level, and specific subject secondary placements at the high school level. There are currently 295 corps members serving 21,000 students across Los Angeles, the majority of whom are Latino and African American.

Get to Know Endeavor College Prep Middle School

In East L.A., Endeavor College Prep (ECP) is a charter middle school founded in 2009 by Michelle Jasso, a ’99 Baltimore alumnae. More than 90% of ECP’s students are Latino, 80% will be the first in their families to graduate from college, and 93% qualify for free and reduced lunch. Michelle’s staff is currently 66% Teach For America corps members and alumni.

The school's staff, two-thirds of whom are Teach For America corps members and alumni, are working together to begin a transformation at ECP. In year one, fourth graders moved from the 13th to 38th percentile, and fifth graders moved from the 25th to the 40th on the nationally-normed Stanford 10 test. This year, all sixth grade students read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and compared the social structures of pre-Civil War South with the Roman Empire. To practice choosing classes in college, students selected arts electives such as collage, origami, digital photography, and guitar.