LA Scores

LA Scores is a non-profit, after-school program that serves Title 1 schools using soccer, creative writing, and service learning to inspire the youth of urban Los Angeles. Through this unique approach, Scores students become engaged in their health, education, and community, and learn the values of compassion, creativity, leadership, teamwork, and commitment. Our dedicated staff and coaches teach our poet-athletes by acting as positive role models, and using the world’s most popular sport to inspire public school youth.

Our relationship with the community of Palms traces back to when the program first launched in LA in 2002. Palms Elementary was one of the first schools to incorporate the Scores program and we have since expanded to four elementary schools, two middle school, and an alumni program of high school students, all within the Palms community.

LA Scores continues to provide a safe and engaging after-school environment while teaching lessons and sharing values that help empower every Scores poet-athlete.