2025-2026 CLASP Annual Report
Jack Mills, CLASP President
What a busy and exciting year we have had at CLASP! We operated three physical sites and one online site for a total of seven sessions of tutoring per week serving an average of 80 students. This yielded 4,015 sessions where students were tutored, had a healthy snack, and had a chance to play or engage in an activity.
When schools were closed for holidays, CLASP provided 13 enrichment days that gave students experiences in creating art, enjoying a live musical performance, exploring nature, and learning to use a library.
Statistics confirmed that CLASP enrolled students who are most in need of academic help and whose families cannot afford traditional fee-based, after-school programs. Nearly 80% of our students met the criterion for being socio-economically disadvantaged, an increase from 71% a year ago. Almost 10% qualified for services under the McKinney Vento program for unhoused students. About a third qualified for special education services and around a quarter were classified as English Language Learners. Around 85% of our students placed one or more grade levels below expectation in math and English proficiency. These students could easily fall further behind without the extra support that our community enables us to provide.
To ensure that CLASP will be better prepared to meet the needs of our students, we brought Barbara MacKenzie on board — an educator with 30 years of experience teaching in elementary school classrooms. Barbara is assisting Program Director Cristina Antoniolli by offering math and language exercises that are more personalized to the needs of each student. For the second year in a row, we will conduct a summer intensive reading program to give selected students the boost they need to be able to read at their grade level. We were also excited to bring in Mary Grace Aguinaldo, an experienced educator herself, to help us recruit and sustain the over 100 volunteer tutors we need to run the program.
Finally, we want to express our sincere gratitude to the individuals and community agencies and organizations who provide the funding for these programs. We received support from the Claremont School District, the City of Claremont Human Services Commission, and many other individuals, non-profits, and service clubs. Celebrate CLASP, our annual fund-raising gala that this year marked CLASP’s 20th anniversary, was an enormous success. We honored seven tutors who had volunteered with us since the beginning days, with Congresswoman Judy Chu presenting each of them a certificate of congressional recognition. Our founders Shirely Butler Hughes, Carole Harter, and Lissa Petersen were in attendance.
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2024-2025 CLASP Annual Report
Jack Mills, CLASP President
CLASP has finished another school year and thanks to our dedicated staff, volunteers, and supporters, we once again provided needed academic help for our students, who received one-on-one homework assistance from a caring adult twice a week. Our working board and committees continued to focus on the essential components of CLASP; prudent budgeting, strategic training, and quality assessment of our programs. As a result, our elementary students have been provided with meaningful experiences to improve academic, social, and emotional growth demonstrating that CLASP is much more than simply a homework help program!
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Click here to see CLASP’s 2024-2025 IRS Form 990.
2023-2024 IRS 990
2022-2023 IRS 990
2021-2022 IRS 990
2020-2021 IRS 990
BY THE NUMBERS
4015
Individual tutoring sessions provided.
100+
Community members, college students, and high school students who volunteered to be tutors.
3
Tutoring sites: Claremont Presbyterian Church, Wheeler Park, and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.
13
Vacation or minimum school day enrichment activities provided to students.
85%
of CLASP students initially placed one or more grade levels below expectation in math and English proficiency.
91%
of CLASP students qualified for special services because they had a learning or other disability, were an English language learner, were socioeconomically disadvantaged, or lacked a fixed or adequate nighttime residence.
Multiple
Racial and ethnic groups served.
50%
of CLASP students improved by at least one grade level in math or reading.
15
CLASP 6th graders promoted to middle school.
34
Board members and community volunteers staffed the 12 committees that operate CLASP.
220
Individual and organizational donors in 2025–2026.