Find your school center
Camden High School
4320 Newton Ave N, Minneapolis | 55412
Room 169/170
Hours: Check back for school year hours
Phone: 612-668-1992
Coordinators: India Burton and Kong Xiong
Contract Alternative Schools
Various Minneapolis Public Schools contract alternative school sites (see below)
Hours: Contact coordinators for hours
Phones: Contact coordinators via email
Coordinators: Doyen Kulee (Menlo Park Academy, PYC Arts and Technology High School, VOA High School, and Minneapolis Academy and Career Center) and Haley Wireman-Sobba (Loring Nicollet Alternative School, MERC Alternative High School, NaWAyEe Center School and Takoda Prep)
Edison High School
700 22nd Ave NE, Minneapolis | 55418
Room 219
Hours: Check back for school year hours
Phone: 612-668-1370 | Nora: 612-414-7207 (cell)
Coordinators: Nora Guerin
FAIR School for Arts
10 S 10th St, Minneapolis | 55403
Room 301
Hours: Check back for school year hours
Phone: 612-399-6075
Coordinator: Sam Smith
Heritage Academy
3345 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis | 55407
Hours: Check back for school year hours
Phone: 612-668-1583
Coordinator: Munira Mohamed
Longfellow High School
3017 E 31st St, Minneapolis | 55406
Room 102
Hours: Check back for school year hours
Phone: 612-440-7840
Coordinators: Lucia Mendez-Gutierrez
MPS Online School
1250 W Broadway, Minneapolis | 55411
5th floor
Hours: Check back for school year hours
Phone: 612-399-6075 (Google voice)
Coordinator: Sam Smith
North Community High School
1500 James Ave N, Minneapolis | 55411
Rooms 677 and 678
Hours: Check back for school year hours
Phone: Check back soon!
Temporary Contact: Tina Kue
Roosevelt High School
4029 28th Ave S, Minneapolis | 55406
Room 207
Contact: Andrew Peterson
South High School
3131 19th Ave S, Minneapolis | 55407
Room 246
Hours: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Phone: 612-668-4363
Coordinators: Katie Hanson and Kelsey Massey
Southwest High School
3414 W 47th St, Minneapolis | 55410
Room W106
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Phone: 612-668-3065
Coordinator: Gabrielle Brown and Erin Kottke
Washburn High School
201 W 49th St, Minneapolis | 55419
Room 107
Hours: Check back for school year hours
Phone: Hana: 612-668-3442
Coordinator: Hana Sato-Perry
Wellstone International High School
1501 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis | 55403
Room K3002
Hours: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Phone: 608-279-6707
Coordinator: Chris Stoltenberg
Central High School
275 Lexington Pkwy N, Saint Paul | 55104
Room 2026
Phone: 651-744-2844
Coordinator: Katie Culshaw
Como Park Senior High School
740 Rose Ave W, Saint Paul | 55117
Room 1304
Hours: Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Phone: 651-744-2487
Coordinator: Aisha Mohamed
Harding High School
1540 6th Street East, East Saint Paul | 55106
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:15 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Phone: 651-744-3599
Coordinator: Katie Kovacovich
Highland Park High School
1015 Snelling Ave S, St Paul | 55116
Hours: Monday - Thursday, 8:15 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Phone: 651-788-3592
Coordinator: Matt Carlson
Humboldt High School
30 Baker St E, St Paul | 55107
Phone: 651-293-8600 Ext. 52893
Coordinator: Rose Yackley
Johnson Aerospace & Engineering High School
1349 Arcade St, St Paul | 55106
Room 1017
Hours: Monday - Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Phone: 651-325-2557
Coordinator: Cha Billy Vang
Washington Technology Magnet School
1495 Rice Street, St Paul | 55117
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Phone: 651-744-7038
Coordinator: Colin Peters
We help students
explore and make
a plan for life
after graduation.
Achieve Twin Cities partners with Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) and Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) to offer a wide range of career and postsecondary guidance and resources to help students discover, explore and plan for life after high school.
Our coordinators deliver student-focused services based in centers embedded in our 28 partner schools. In collaboration with school counseling teams, we connect students with two and four-year college, apprenticeships, training programs, the workforce and other options to discover, explore and plan for life-sustaining careers.
As the sole universal career and college readiness provider in MPS and SPPS school districts, Achieve services are accessible to over 18,000 students each year, with direct advising for over 6,000 students.
Our services in Minneapolis and Saint Paul schools
Our School-based Team
Our professional career and college readiness (CCR) staff includes licensed school counselors, social workers, admissions experts, educators and youth workers. Each team member brings extensive experience in helping students develop and pursue the best postsecondary plans for their individual education, career and life goals. Many of our staff are graduates of the schools we serve – including some of our former students – or were the first in their families to attend college.
Services We Provide
One-on-One Student Advising
It’s important that all students have the support they need to develop the knowledge and skills they need to create a solid vision of their future. Achieve provides individualized, student-centered advising to foster student self-discovery and agency in their postsecondary transition. We work one-on-one with students, tracking their individual postsecondary plans and using data to provide targeted support. We also guide students through the three postsecondary transition stages, including:
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Self-knowledge: decision-making, problem-solving, self-advocacy skills and identifying interests and strengths
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Career pathway knowledge: connecting interests and strengths to potential careers, career research and exploration
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Postsecondary plan development and completion: postsecondary plan research, applications, financial aid and scholarships, financial planning and literacy
Career and Postsecondary Experiences and Resources
We collaborate with school counselors, partner organizations and district leadership to provide engaging opportunities for students to build their knowledge of career and postsecondary pathways.
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We deliver workshops and lessons on career exploration and postsecondary planning
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We coordinate school visits from postsecondary schools, scholarship organizations, the military and other organizations
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We host college fairs, college tours, family career and college events, and career exposure opportunities
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We connect students with internships, summer programs and employment
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We link students with college access programs and other partner organizations for additional resources
Strong Partnerships and Integrated Systems of Support
Partnerships and collaboration is key to our programming at both the school and district levels.
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Achieve coordinators partner deeply with school counselors, serving as key members of these teams to deliver high-quality programming and manage the central tracking of student postsecondary planning progress.
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We provide additional capacity and focus to build holistic career and college readiness instruction and services that follow students from ninth grade through graduation.
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Collaborating across school districts, higher education and training institutions, and with employers and trade unions, we work to build a continuous system of support to ensure that all students have full access to career and college opportunities.
See our work in action
How we know our approach works
Here's how Achieve Twin Cities services differ from other career and college readiness organizations:
Achieve Twin Cities is one of many organizations that support high school students in planning for the future, including College Possible, Project Success, Genesys Works, Junior Achievement, TRIO, Gear Up and several others. Here’s how our work is distinctive:
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Achieve career and college readiness coordinators are fully embedded in our MPS and SPPS partner schools, and we work closely with district career and college readiness leaders. This unparalleled level of partnership and integration with our two school districts allows us to provide comprehensive, aligned services for all students.
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Our data-sharing agreements with MPS and SPPS provide comprehensive access to student data that allows us to target students who need extra support, track trends such as FAFSA and college application completion rates and identify other useful data to inform and strengthen our programs.
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As a universal service provider, Achieve has a unique advising model that allows our coordinators to provide individualized postsecondary planning guidance for students of all ages, all interests, and all backgrounds, while focusing on the students who face the most barriers.
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We support students with all postsecondary plans, including both college and non-college pathways.
- We connect students with other opportunities provided by our peer career and college readiness organizations by identifying student participants, coordinating logistics and providing follow-up advising and connections.
Learn more about our school-based program model and strategies
Achieve Twin Cities School-Based CCR Program Guide
Career and college readiness requires a thoughtful, student-centered approach and is highly collaborative. This guide provides a philosophical overview of our Achieve school-based CCR program, and outlines our strategies, activities and outcomes.
Achieve Twin Cities Career and College Readiness Impact Report
Find out more about the scope and impact of our school-based CCR programming in Minneapolis Public Schools and Saint Paul Public Schools for the 2022-23 school year.
“If I didn’t go to the Career & College Center or if I didn’t talk with the coordinators, I would have never found the opportunity that I’m in right now. So I guess in a way, knowing them and just being there at the right time at the right place just kind of really changed my life.” - High school senior, class of 2023
