Schools
ALAS Childcare Center (ASPIRA Learning Academy Scholars) 
ALAS Childcare Center provides a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment for children ages 8 weeks through 5 years old. Our program is designed to foster every child’s growth by transforming everyday moments into meaningful learning opportunities.
At ALAS, we believe learning should be guided by a child’s natural curiosity. Our approach blends academic foundations with mental, physical, and social-emotional development ensuring a balanced and enriching early education experience. We aim to ignite a lifelong love of learning while helping children build essential life skills such as communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking.
Our dedicated faculty create thoughtfully designed indoor and outdoor learning environments that encourage exploration, discovery, and joy. Through hands-on experiences and individualized attention, young scholars at ALAS are empowered to grow into confident, capable learners.
Pequeños Pasos de ASPIRA
Our Head Start and Pre- K Counts preschool program Pequeños Pasos. Pequeños Pasos is a bilingual preschool program on the ASPIRA, Inc. of Pennsylvania Educational Campus.
In partnership with the Head Start center of the School District of Philadelphia, we serve hundreds of low-income families by providing a multicultural, academically enriched, dual-language education in English and Spanish for children ages 3-5.
The curriculum in place at Pequeños Pasos was constructed carefully with the intent and understanding of preschool being a significant stepping-stone for learning at an early age.
Our program incorporates rigorous vocabulary and knowledge while meeting the standards of Pennsylvania for Early Childhood and Common Core learning.
All Pasos scholars have the advantage of:
• Highly engaged teachers who learn their students’ backgrounds to better advocate on their behalf and work with assigned Family Service Workers
• Research-based teaching and learning within a dynamic social environment which helps prepares students for later education
• Real-life, community diversity, with many ethnicities in the student population
• School-modeled learning environment, not a daycare service
Located in a restored three-story brick building at 4322 North 5th Street in the Hunting Park neighborhood of North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ASPIRA City College is private, nonprofit, non-sectarian, and co-educational. Established in 1974 at Metropolitan Career College, the school provided education and training programs. Today as ASPIRA City College, we are still following the same mission and preparing students to seek gainful employment with sustainable incomes.
The College offers an Associate in Specialized Technology (AST) degree to Computer Support Specialist program graduates and a post-secondary diploma to its Medical Secretary graduates. Students can get started attending on-campus or online in live instructor-led classes, with several convenient class schedules from which to choose.