The California Student Opportunity and Access Program (Cal-SOAP) was established by the state legislature in 1978. Today, Cal-SOAP is instrumental in improving the flow of information about post-secondary education and financial aid while raising the achievement levels of low-income, elementary and secondary school students or geographic regions with documented low-eligibility or college participation rates, and who are first in their families to attend college.  

Current Cal-SOAP projects include: Central Coast (Santa Maria), Central Valley (San Joaquin), East Bay/Solano (Oakland, Richmond and Solano County), Inland Empire (through CSU San Bernardino), Long Beach, Los Angeles, Merced, Northcoast (Eureka), Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego/Imperial, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara, South County Gilroy, and South San Joaquin.

The Riverside County Cal-SOAP Program consortium members include:

High School Members:

• Hemet Unified School District

• Moreno Valley Unified School District 

• Murrieta Valley Unified School District

• Perris Union High School District

• San Jacinto Unified School District

• Temecula Valley Unified School District

• Val Verde Unified School District

Higher Education Members:

• Moreno Valley College (MVC)

• Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC)

• University of California, Riverside (UCR)

Partners:

• California Colleges Guidance Initiative (CCGI)

• Growing Inland Achievement (GIA)

The Cal-SOAP program is administered by the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC), with individual projects applying each year for continued state funding.

For more information, please visit the Cal-SOAP website or contact us at rivcocalsoap@rcoe.us.

We are hiring!

Visit the Cal-SOAP EdJoin page for current openings.