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.
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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.
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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 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 1988 by community leaders inspired by Eugene Lang’s “I Have a Dream” initiative, the Colorado Dream Foundation partners with youth and their families from elementary school through college. Its mission is to help students successfully navigate school, college and career by providing holistic academic, social and emotional programs, as well as post‑secondary scholarship assistance. Through curriculum, guest speakers and field trips, the Colorado Dream Foundation introduces college and career options to young people. This sustained approach pays off: Colorado Dream Foundation graduates are three times more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than peers in their communities, and 90% of participating youth graduate high school. Today the organization provides academic, social and emotional support to more than 300 Denver‑area youth each year.
To learn more about The Colorado Dream Foundation, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
Starting in spring 2025, Denver Test Prep has worked with 11th graders in the Colorado Dream Foundation program to provide small group SAT prep classes.
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.
Colorado Reads exists to bridge gaps and transform challenges into solutions that center the needs of students and those who support them. Guided by the values of transformation, collaboration, kindness, equity, and courage, Colorado Reads envisions a world where every student possesses the skills, confidence, and curiosity for reading. Through instructional interventions, family engagement, and community outreach, the organization works to remove systemic barriers, develop equitable tools, and provide resources that nurture both individual and collective progress.
Colorado Reads’ programming focuses on delivering high-impact tutoring in literacy for K–9 students, including multi-language learners and newcomers. Instruction is provided in one-on-one or small-group settings, with explicit, systematic foundational reading skills, ongoing assessment, and a balance of structure and creativity to help students grow.
Our Partnership
Since 2024, DTP tutors have partnered with Colorado Reads to provide school-day literacy support in four DPS schools. Working alongside school teams and families, our instructors delivered 960 hours of targeted reading intervention to 24 students during the 2024–2025 school year.
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.
The Johnson Elementary Boys & Girls Club is a school‑based community club in southwest Denver that provides free after‑school and summer programs for Johnson Elementary students and other youth in the neighborhood. As a chapter of Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver, the club’s expanded learning program draws on expertise from the Boys & Girls Clubs organization, Denver Public Schools, the Colorado Education Initiative, and the National Center for Time and Learning to offer homework help, STEM activities, a computer lab, games and physical fitness, cultural arts, daily meals and snacks, and field trips. The broader mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver is “to inspire and enable young people, especially those who need it most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens,” and the Johnson Elementary club embodies this mission by providing a safe, supportive space for school‑aged youth (grades K‑12) to learn, grow and have fun.
To learn more about the Johnson Elementary Boys & Girls Club, please visit their website.
Our Partnership
Starting in spring 2025, DTP has provided year-round math enrichment programming three times per week to elementary-aged students at the Johnson Elementary Boys & Girls Clubs.
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.
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..
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