2025-2026 TX GEAR UP (GU) Partner Districts Grant

The 2025-2026 TX GEAR UP (GU) Partner Districts program aims to enhance the academic readiness of low-income students for post-secondary education. Through targeted strategies, it focuses on increasing high school graduation rates and fostering greater educational expectations among students and their families. Funded by the Texas Education Agency, this initiative seeks sustainable impact by ensuring comprehensive support and innovative approaches to education across Texas.

Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) is a federal discretionary grant program designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in post-secondary education. GEAR UP awards grants at the state level to achieve the following objectives:
Objective 1: Increase the academic performance and preparation for post secondary education of participating students;Objective 2: Increase the rate of high school graduation and participation in post secondary education of participating students; andObjective 3: Increase the educational expectations for participating students and family knowledge of post secondary education options, preparation and financing.
As a state grant recipient, TX GEAR UP seeks to achieve these objectives through a coordinated approach of innovative strategies, outlined below. Core to the vision of Texas GEAR UP is ensuring the scalability and sustainability of programmatic interventions, to foster a long-term exponential impact across Texas.