The National Education Opportunity Network (NEON) is a nonprofit committed to propelling economic mobility for talented scholars nationwide.
We envision a world where all scholars have the opportunity to reach their full potential. With our network of top colleges and universities, we deliver and support college credit-bearing courses into low-income (Title 1) high schools — at scale, and at no cost to students.
Expanding Opportunity At Scale:
On Track to 1 Million Scholars
Since launching in 2019, NEON has served 60,000 scholars across 34 states and more than 190 cities—from Flint, Michigan; Topeka, Kansas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; the Navajo Nation in Gallup, New Mexico, to Los Angeles and New York City.
NEON brings actual college courses, taught by university professors, into Title I high schools nationwide. With built-in academic coaching and college advising, scholars earn college credit and build critical skills to thrive in college and careers—fueling economic mobility and strengthening our nation’s future workforce.
Built for Scale:
60k NEON Scholars Nationwide
NEON scholars achieve results that signal future economic mobility.
Over 80% of scholars pass their courses.
Scholars attend four-year colleges at 2X times the rate of similarly situated students.
93% of teachers report that this opportunity changed their students’ post-secondary trajectories.
*Based on analysis from Johns Hopkins University.
NEON in the News
“[NEON] has developed a powerful model to help lower-income students get into selective colleges, succeeding where billion-dollar philanthropic experiments in education have failed.”
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
“We have an opportunity here to do something I think has never happened in the history of our country. We have the chance to change the fortunes of hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of young people.”
