After-school Programs
The LEO Center offers two after-school programs which provide homework help and academic enrichment activities. In the afternoon, students in grades 6 to 8 attend the CASTLE program and in the evenings, students in grades 9-12 attend the High School STARS program. In addition to this tutorial help during the week, students broaden their experience through weekend field trips.

Adult Education
In the mornings, adults prepare themselves for the Graduate Equivalent Diploma (GED) Tests. On Saturday mornings adult students attend Computer Skills class.

Summer School
The LEO Center offers the CASTLE Summer Enrichment for students entering grades 6-8 in Fall. This academic program offers enrichment classes in such subjects as mathematics, science, language arts, and computer skills.

Student Population
The LEO Center serves students in the neighborhoods of North Oakland, West Oakland, East Oakland near downtown, Emeryville, and South Berkeley. Almost all the students are African American. Latino students comprise the second largest group within the full population. In this school year 1999-2000, the 100 students in the two after-school programs have these racial and ethnic backgrounds: 82% are African American, 16% are Latino, and 2% are Caucasian not Hispanic. In 1999-2000, students attend 28 different high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools.

Volunteer Tutors
In addition to its primary focus, the students in its programs, LEO has a secondary focus for its apostolic mission. LEO provides volunteer tutors an opportunity to exercise their vocations to serve others and explore and develop their personal talents. Last year 80 tutors from high school and college students to college professors and other professionals contributed their services to the students of the LEO Center.

Apostolic Mission
The staff of the LEO Center intend that the students, their parents, and the community at large come to know that the work done there is an instance of God's providential care for the students. The near-gratuity of the service, the presence of a religiously-minded community of Brothers and Lasallian Voluteers, the Christian symbols which decorate the Center, and the occasional common prayer speak to the students about the gift which God is giving to them.