With a national model that sends over 80% of urban children to college, Nativity Prep's mission is to provide a tuition-free, college prep education to unprivileged children in an environment that nurtures and encourages them to reach full potential. Since its inception in 2001, Nativity Prep has established two college prep schools; they educate 240 students, and house their 29 full-time AmeriCorps volunteers in the same area in which they work. The majority of volunteers are recent college graduates who serve for two years as teachers while earning a graduate degree in education from the University of San Diego (USD) at no cost to the teachers.