ASU Preparatory Academy

July 30 - Beatriz Rendon, Associate VP for Educational Outreach and Student Services at ASU, described the ASU Preparatory Academy. Beatriz gave us the history of the program and the demographics of the students at the two major locations.  The downtown Phoenix location, located at Filmore and 7th St., currently has 900 students from pre-Kindergarten to Grade 10. It began in 2009 and at that time  less than 3/4 of the students in the school could pass the AIMS test. Now over 2/3 pass the same test. The facility at ASU's  Polytechnic campus began in 2008 and has a middle to upper class student population with most of the students passing the AIMS test. The Academy is a very strong outreach effort by ASU to better integrate education at all levels and improve the readiness of students for college.