Andre Agassi Foundation for Education: Helping Kids Secure a Brighter Future
By 2000, the foundation chose education to be its primary focus and began planning another major project – a public charter school called the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy or Agassi Prep. The school’s elementary department opened that same year. The middle school department followed in 2002 and the Kindergarten wing was inaugurated 2 years later. The school was finally completed in 2006 which now offers the entire K-12 grades. 2009 was a special year for the foundation and Agassi Prep as its first batch of seniors graduated that year with every single student in the class accepted into college. That same year, the foundation decided to strengthen its focus on education and showed it by renaming the organization to the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education (AAFE). They also changed the organization’s logo and mission to match their dedication to educating children.
The AAFE is now pouring all its efforts and fundraising activities to Agassi Prep, which in 2012, began an expansion project to accommodate more students.