About ACES

Mission

The mission of ACES is to close the academic achievement gap of at-risk urban students in grades four through eight.

Program Facts, 2010-11 School Year

• ACES provided a total of 25,000 hours of in-class programming to more than 400 urban students.
• ACES facilitated more than 50 E-Mentor/Mentee relationships for ACES middle school students.
• ACES students participated in service learning community projects with more than one dozen Twin Cities community organizations, almost 1,000 hours of service total.
• More than 150 adults volunteered with ACES.
• ACES leveraged two AmeriCorps Promise Fellows to launch two addition ACES school sites.
• Ninety-eight percent of ACES students are minority; 90 percent are free/reduced lunch, an indicator of poverty; 49 percent of ACES students are female.
• ACES partners with numerous Twin Cities organizations, including Students Today Leaders Forever, Minneapolis Public Schools, St. Paul Public Schools, Page Foundation, the St. Paul Saints, and Minnesota Twins, Vikings, Timberwolves, Lynx, Wild, and Swarm!