Complete preparation
for college and workforce success
OUR PROGRAMS: HIGH SCHOOL
Take the next step of your journey toward exciting college and workforce experiences. With focused college and career advising, summer programming, and enrichment opportunities, Heights offers comprehensive high school services embedded in Philadelphia schools for year-round support.
Experience college and career advising, workforce exposure, and academic enrichment at one of our partner schools. Heights coordinators lead school-wide programming and deliver group and one-on-one advising to Heights’ cohorted students.
Join 24 fellow students for intensive advising and additional programming and enrichment opportunities. Participants meet privately with advisors as well as in groups for regular check-ins. Advising topics include:
- 10th grade: Pathways – career exposure, fit, and research
- 11th grade: Postsecondary pathways – pathway plan
- 12th grade: Postsecondary pathways – application, selection, and placement
Tap into FAFSA support, college trips, and career days. Participants benefit from preparation for the SAT and ACT.
Heights offers targeted, strategic academic enrichment opportunities to help build critical thinking and reasoning skills, strengthen writing abilities, and introduce students to the academic rigor and pace of college-level work.
Through 1:1 counseling, résumé preparation, interview skills, job search strategies, and financial planning, Heights helps students create a roadmap to their career. We also connect students to industry-specific programs and internships in high school to build a pipeline to postsecondary jobs.
- Internships: 11th and 12th graders can join paid internship opportunities for greater career experience and exposure. More than 100 Heights students are engaged in paid internships at 100+ locations.
Our extensive high school summer program offerings provides students with the tools and opportunities to succeed in high school, college, and beyond.
Our enrichment programs provide stipends for all academic and career exposure programs serving 8th to 12th graders.
Through the Ellis Trust, Philly-area high school girls gain tuition assistance, college prep programs, academic enrichment, and other meaningful support.
Abraham Lincoln High School
Carver Engineering and Science
Central High School
Franklin Learning Center
George Washington High School
Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School
Kensington Health Sciences Academy
Kensington High School
Murrell Dobbins Career and Technical Education High School
Northeast High School
Parkway Center City Middle College
Philadelphia High School for Girls
The Academies at Roxborough High School
William W. Bodine High School for International Affairs
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Enter a clearer pathway to high school selection with summer and weekend programs, tutoring, and advising.
Gain a college advisor and connections to greater resources — including career opportunities, stipends, and scholarships — at over 70 distinct institutions across the country.
Launch a life-sustaining career with a solid path to employment in a variety of industries, plus internships, mentoring, and other job opportunities.
Join Heights and see how far Philadelphia students can go.