DC SCORES

For people who believe in a well-rounded childhood, DC SCORES is the quality, team-based approach providing youth with the arts, athletics, and academics that will engage, enrich, and improve their lives. DC SCORES builds teams through after school programs for over 800 low-income DC youth at 27 schools by instilling self-expression, physical fitness, and a sense of community. DC SCORES accomplishes this in an innovative model combining poetry and spoken word, soccer, and service-learning year-round. We have worked with over 6,000 students since our founding in 1994 and we aim to serve EVERY child in the District deserving of a team who does not have one.

DC SCORES is one of the largest nonprofit after-school programs in the District and we are proud to host the city’s largest youth poetry slam and the only public elementary and middle school soccer leagues. Since 1994, 6,000 students have produced over 30,000 pieces of poetry. Through playing soccer, DC SCORES students show significant gains in physical fitness. Further, our students carry out 26 service projects in their school and neighborhood communities annually

DC SCORES reaches over 800 students each year at 27 schools located in some of the DC's most under-resourced neighborhoods. Over 80% of our students receive free or reduced lunch. Faced with declining test scores in reading and writing and skyrocketing childhood obesity rates, we provide students with an enriching and fun after-school program where they can succeed both on and off the field.

Through DC SCORES, our poet-athletes write and perform poetry, work together as a team to help their community, and play soccer each week in the only leagues for public elementary and middle schools in the District. With our unique combination of activities, DC SCORES aims to make our students more engaged in school, increase their physical fitness through soccer, and increase their sense of self-worth and sense of belonging to their team, school, and community.

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