Education nonprofit, founded 1988, placing teams of AmeriCorps members aged 18-24 in high-need US schools as Student Success Coaches to support graduation.
City Year, Inc is an education nonprofit founded in 1988 in Boston, Massachusetts. It places teams of AmeriCorps members - young adults aged 18 to 24 - in high-need public schools, where they serve as Student Success Coaches. Their work covers academic support, social-emotional learning and attendance monitoring, with the aim of keeping students on track to graduate from high school.
The organisation operates through its Whole School Whole Child model, which is designed to support entire school environments rather than individual students alone. The service year itself is demanding and full-time, uniting diverse young adults in a period of structured community work. City Year's founding premise is that young people can transform their communities through service, and the programme maintains a historic connection to AmeriCorps and America's federal investment in national youth service.
City Year works in more than 29 communities across the United States. Its activities span education, youth development, public K-12 schooling and national service programme design, and the organisation describes itself as mission-driven and service-oriented, with an emphasis on diversity among corps members.
