Students & Schools

Your donation provides direct support to qualifying disabled and/or low income students (K-12th) across Arizona. Through Arizona's Corporate and individual tuition tax credit programs, Individuals, corporations, and insurance carriers, can receive a tax credit for their donation to Academic Opportunity of Arizona. Since 2016 we have partnered with over 60 schools statewide and allocated over $6,400,000 towards these students in need.

Scholarship Requirements

Low-Income
Scholarship Guidelines

For K-12th grade students
For preschool students with disabilities
Student’s family income cannot exceed 185% of the income required to qualify a child for reduced-price lunches.

Disabled/Displaced
Scholarship Guidelines

For K-12th grade students
For preschool students with disabilities
The sum of a student's DD scholarship is limited to 90% state aid or cost of tuition, whichever is less.

We support all qualified schools & students across Arizona.

Qualifying schools must offer educational services to students with disabilities and be a non-governmental primary or secondary school that does not discriminate based on race, color, disability, familial status, or national origin. All teaching staff and personnel that have unsupervised contact with students are required to be fingerprinted. A charter school, or any program operated by a charter school, is not considered a qualifying school.