Investing in students that need it most.
Denver Test Prep is committed to offering customized one-on-one tutoring programs and small group courses to nonprofit organizations that serve disadvantaged youth.
For organizations that prefer to deliver tutoring programs using their own staff or volunteers, we also offer staff training programs.
To partner with Denver Test Prep, please contact us.
OUR PARTNERS
Access Opportunity invests in high-potential, low-income students, from high school through college, so that they can have impactful careers and lead change in the lives of individuals and communities. By providing personalized services, support, grants, and career opportunities, Access Opportunity ensures that talented and motivated students have the tools to succeed.
Partnering with high schools in the greater Denver Metro area, Access Opportunity identifies students for the program and starts working with them in 10th grade. Through academic advising and tutoring, Access Opportunity students’ average cumulative GPAs increase by 12+ points and their average ACT scores are raised by 4+ points.
All Access Opportunity seniors are accepted to 4-year colleges. Through financial aid and scholarship advising, as well as a $10,000 college scholarship provided to each student, Access Opportunity students only owe $2,170 per year of college, on average, out of an average college cost of $59,087.
Once in college, Access Opportunity students transition to a career development program characterized by networking, job shadowing, and internship opportunities. Access Opportunity also partners with families on their students’ success by providing educational workshops and other resources through their Family Engagement Program.
For more information on Access Opportunity, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
Starting in January 2018, DTP has provided small group ACT courses to all Access Opportunity 11th graders. Students who take the April ACT and also have the opportunity to continue with more tutoring towards the June test. In the 2022-23 school year, DTP also began offering academic coaching workshops for students and “train-the-trainer” coaching workshops for Access Opportunity staff.
READ: DTP Sponsors Access Opportunity’s 2018 Raise a Glass Event
The mission of Breakthrough at Kent Denver is two-fold: first, to increase the educational and social opportunities of motivated, financially under-resourced, middle and high school students through a quality year-round program, and second, to motivate and train talented college students for careers in education. Breakthrough at Kent Denver envisions a nation populated by transformational learning communities, where equitable access to excellent opportunities propels aspiring students on their path to college and aspiring teachers on their path to the classroom.
To learn more about Breakthrough at Kent Denver, please visit their website
Our Partnership
DTP has partnered with Breakthrough at Kent Denver to offer test prep, academic tutoring, and coaching programs for students since spring of 2020. Each year, DTP works with Breakthrough at Kent Denver 11th grade students to prepare them to take the SAT. DTP has also offered essay writing workshops, K-12 academic support, and academic coaching.
The mission of Carmel Hill Colorado, established in 2005, is to shape students into voracious readers. They have worked with over 90 Denver Public Schools and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver to develop independent reading practices. In 2021, Carmel Hill Colorado expanded their programming to include an initiative called the Colorado READS Initiative in Southwest Denver with a goal of fostering literacy enriched communities throughout the area.
Colorado READS includes three components with a focus on literacy:
- Instructional Interventions and Support (Tutoring Program)
- Parent, Family and Caregiver Engagement
- Community Outreach
To learn more about Carmel Hill, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
DTP has collaborated with Colorado READS Initiative in Southwest Denver since fall of 2022, providing reading intervention in 4 DPS schools. Our instructors meet students during the school day in a one-on-one or small groups setting, teaching explicit and systematic foundational reading skills for 3rd through 9th graders. Our tutors assess and progress monitor each student’s reading and writing growth all while balancing fun and creative lessons! In the 2022-2023 school year, our team of tutors worked collectively with 27 students and provided 1,048 hours of direct instruction.
The Challenge Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that helps smart, ambitious, and hard-working students break the cycle of poverty through education opportunities. Challenge takes a whole-student approach, awarding tuition scholarships and individualized support services to low-income students. From sixth grade, at a college preparatory school, and continuing through college, the Challenge Foundation sees the big picture: the potential in their scholars and their dreams of higher education, the impact they will make in their communities, and the way that giving back to the world is a privilege we should all strive to earn.
To learn more about The Challenge Foundation, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
Since 2014, DTP has partnered with the Challenge Foundation in Denver, El Paso, and Phoenix to prepare its students for the ACT and SAT through 1-on-1 tutoring and small group programs. In 2022, DTP also began offering small group writing tutoring to Challenge Denver students.
Founded in 2012 at CommonGround Golf Course, the Solich Caddie & Leadership Academy creates opportunities for young people to develop leadership skills and enhance character through a foundation built around caddying.
Through a two-year caddie-training program, young men and women have the unique opportunity to learn and benefit from the game of golf, not from a book or a junior golf program, but rather through caddying. Caddie grants will be provided to underprivileged children in order to provide them with a chance to learn the caddie trade, develop skills that they will use both on and off the golf course. Caddies start in the Academy upon completion of their 8th grade year. Following the completion of this program they are placed into an existing and successful caddie program in the Denver Metro Area.
While caddying is the focus, student caddies are required to attend weekly leadership meetings and fulfill a community service requirement by working closely with one of the community partners who host golf programs at CommonGround Golf Course.
Caddies also have the opportunity to apply for the Evans Scholarship, which is a full tuition and housing college scholarship for high-achieving caddies with limited financial means. To qualify, caddies must meet the requirements of having a strong caddie record, excellent academics, demonstrated financial need and outstanding character.
To learn more about the Solich Caddie & Leadership Academy at the Colorado Golf Association, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
DTP has partnered with the Colorado Golf Association to run one-on-one and small-group SAT prep courses for caddies since 2015. This course supports 11th and 12th grade students in their applications for the Evans Scholarship and other college funding opportunities.
The University of Colorado Boulder’s Office of Precollege Outreach and Engagement partners with communities across Colorado and beyond to provide first-generation and low-income students and their families with comprehensive college prep and social development programs that provide participants with precollege preparatory skills and opportunities to explore and access postsecondary educational options. The Office of Precollege Outreach and Engagement works diligently to increase service to communities across the state that are under-resourced due to geographic location, but where students have great potential for postsecondary success.
As Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education has been centered and prioritized in K-20 education systems, many first-generation and underrepresented communities continue to lag in representation and in acquiring degrees in these fields. In response to this challenge, the Office of Precollege Outreach and Engagement has created a two-week summer residential program on the CU Boulder campus that introduces STEM disciplines and topics to Precollegiate Development Program participants.
Program courses include: Science Writing and Research, Mathematics, STEM Exploration, STEM Projects, SAT Test Prep, and College Planning
To learn more about CU Boulder’s Precollege STEM Summer Program, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
DTP has partnered with the CU Boulder Office of Precollege Outreach and Engagement since 2017 to conduct a 2-week intensive SAT prep course for high school students that are participating in the Precollege STEM Summer Program on the CU Boulder campus. The aim of this course is to offer early exposure to test prep and strategy for first generation college students.
In the past, DTP also provided SAT prep classes for CU Boulder’s Precollegiate Development Program, which is an academic enhancement program that aims to prepare first-generation students and families academically, personally and socially to enroll in and succeed at the postsecondary institution of their choice.
The Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s mission is to ignite the community’s passion for nature and science. Active science takes place at the Museum every day. Curators, collections managers, archivists, conservators, librarians, researchers, and lab assistants—along with 600 volunteers—are not only responsible for conducting research but also creating opportunities for citizens to become actively involved in science. The education staff creates compelling programs and experiences for millions of guests and schoolchildren that inspire a passion for exploring and understanding our natural and cultural world.
To this end, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science offers an educational program for teens called the Teen Science Scholars Program. Teen Science Scholars complete hands-on summer internships with Science Division staff at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Teen interns in their junior or senior year of high school strengthen their investigative and communication skills, develop a peer network of students from across the state of Colorado, and share their work and experiences during a Showcase event at the end of the summer.
To learn more about DMNS, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
DTP has partnered with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science since 2017 to offer small-group SAT prep courses for Teen Science Scholars to support them on their journeys to a 4-year college education in the STEM fields.
HighView provides the exposure, resources, and connections needed to remove barriers to student success, leveling the playing field and democratizing access to promising careers. HighView connects high-achieving students from underserved communities with the most exciting companies in their local areas to give them a higher view into their potential future. Several companies partner with HighView, to support students with the tools they need to succeed academically, from a quiet place to study in a beautiful setting to one-on-one mentorship focused on college prep.
100% of HighView students graduate high school on time, receive acceptances to 4-year colleges and universities, and earn substantial college scholarships.
To learn more about HighView, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
DTP has partnered with HighView since 2020 to offer one-on-one academic tutoring and small group SAT prep classes for 11th grade students.
To learn more about Horizons Colorado, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
DTP offers our MAD Labs enrichment program to over 100 elementary school students participating in the Horizons summer program.
Mile High 360 provides comprehensive, wrap-around services to first-generation college-bound students with after-school, weekend, and summer access to essential out-of-school resources. Mile High 360 programming complements school-based learning by providing and organizing local and regional resources to address a child’s social, emotional, and academic needs with structured support in three core areas: Academics, Health & Wellness, and Life Skills. Participants join the program in 6th or 7th grade and remain in the program through their post-secondary endeavors, participating in over 425 hours per year of program activities across the school year and summer months with Mile High 360.
To learn more about Mile High 360, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
DTP helps Mile High 360 students to prepare for standardized tests through 1-on-1 tutoring and group programs. We have helped students to prepare for the ACT, SAT, and private high school admissions exams since 2015.
Minds Matter is a three-year program that begins in a student’s 10th grade of high school after a rigorous recommendation, application, and selection process as 9th graders.
Minds Matter offers its students a combination of individualized mentor support, group instruction & college summer programs to provide students with the resources, information and guidance they need to gain admission to, enroll in and graduate from four-year colleges with scholarships. Minds Matter students join the program as sophomores in high school and receive the following during their weekly Monday sessions:
Individualized mentor support: focused support from two dedicated mentors every Monday throughout the academic year. Mentors and students build strong relationships and work together to help achieve the student’s academic and personal goals through the college selection, admittance, and financial aid processes.
Group academic instruction: in-class instruction focused on intensive writing, critical-thinking, and ACT prep from a third party partner.
Summer enrichment programs: opportunity to attend two rigorous summer academic programs at top-tier institutions to explore their educational interests.
To learn more about Minds Matter Denver, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
DTP has partnered with Minds Matter since 2017 to offer SAT prep classes for all Minds Matter 11th grade students. In 2023, DTP and Minds Matter shifted the SAT program to be an opt-in opportunity for students to access more individualized support.
Recruiting Classroom has a simple mission: to help kids play sports from the age of curiosity to college. The guiding philosophy of Recruiting Classroom is that all children and adolescents, regardless of zip code or ability, should have access to high-quality sport activity that allows them to develop as human beings. Many studies document the physical, mental, social, emotional, cognitive and academic benefits that flow to youth whose bodies are in motion. These benefits link directly to increased likelihood to get a college degree, good paying job and long-term health. It’s also known that communities thrive when they promote policies and develop infrastructure that encourage sport and recreation activity.
Recruiting Classroom invests in students in five key areas: program grants for sports teams, college athletic recruiting education & support, test prep & tutoring, sports equipment, and scholarships.
To learn more about Recruiting Classroom, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
A key aspect of Recruiting Classroom’s mission is to build the whole person, both on and off the field. Recruiting Classroom and DTP launched our partnership in 2023 to provide supported athletes with the tutoring and test prep services built into Recruiting Classroom’s program grants and scholarships.
Founded in 1979, Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning is a nationally recognized provider of effective intercultural learning programs and services. It is a nonprofit, community-based organization working to build brighter futures for individuals and foster more inclusive organizations.
The Spring Institute’s mission is to empower people and organizations to succeed across languages and cultures.
To learn more about The Spring Institute, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
With funding from the City & County of Denver, Denver Test Prep launched its partnership with Spring Institute’s Early Childhood and Youth Programs in 2022. DTP instructors now offer weekly K-12 homework support and tutoring services to students living in the East Colfax neighborhood of Denver.
Urban Peak is the only non-profit organization in Denver that provides a full convergence of services for youth experiencing homelessness. Their mission is to ignite the potential in youth to exit homelessness and create self-determined, fulfilled lives. They do this by conducting outreach to homeless youth, operating a shelter for youth ages 15-20, providing case management and housing, and running a daytime drop-in center where youth can access hot meals, lockers to keep belongings safe, laundry facilities and showers, along with case management and access to community resources.
To learn more about Urban Peak, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
DTP has partnered with Urban Peak since 2021 to offer weekly academic support to youth. DTP instructors meet with Urban Peak youth at the drop-in shelter to assist students with preparing and passing the GED test, as well as offering homework and writing support.
Denver Test Prep conceived of our “Pay-What-You-Can” SAT prep course in 2020. As COVID-19 led to the unexpected shutdowns of schools and in-person programs, DTP wanted to find a way to offer high-quality test prep programming to highly motivated students who otherwise would not have access to these services. Over the past several years, the course has continued, targeting students outside the Denver metro area and those within Denver who may not otherwise be able to afford access to SAT prep services, thereby improving their odds of college acceptance and merit scholarships..
In 2023, DTP will expand the “Pay-What-You-Can” model to offer an ISEE test prep course to younger students, with the same goal of ensuring that test prep services are accessible to any student who wants to master the exam.
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