Schools Serving Low-income Students

Review the US Department of Education's Annual Directory of Designated Low-income Schools for Teacher Cancellation Benefits

Schools Designated as Low-income for Part of a School Year

If the school where you teach meets the requirements of a low-income school during all or a part of a school year of your required four school years of teaching, but does not meet those requirements in subsequent school years, those subsequent years of teaching at that school will still qualify for purposes of satisfying your TEACH Grant service obligation.

Schools Operated by Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)

All elementary and secondary schools operated by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) or operated on Indian reservations by Indian tribal groups under contract or grant with the BIE qualify as low-income schools.

TEACH Grant Program

Conditions

In exchange for receiving a TEACH Grant, you must agree to serve as a full-time teacher in a high-need field in a public or private elementary or secondary school that serves low-income students. As a recipient of a TEACH Grant, you must teach for at least four academic years within eight calendar years of completing the program of study for which you received a TEACH Grant.

Important

If you fail to complete this service obligation, all amounts of the TEACH Grants that you received will be converted to a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan. You must then repay this loan to the U.S. Department of Education. You will be charged interest from the date the grant(s) was disbursed.

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