Small Learning Communities
When Fairfax High School re-opened in Fall 2008(via analysis from schools in Seattle), it was reconfigured into a complex of five new small learning communities (SLCs) and the existing Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual Arts. The campus was divided into six areas of "contiguous space." Non-magnet students and staff were reorganized into five new schools-within-a-school. Subsequently, in 2010, two of the SLCs were replaced by a single SLC, bringing the total down to four SLCs and the Magnet. Currently, these SLCs are:
- Academy of Media & Performing Arts (AMPA)
- Academy of International Business and Communications (IBC)
- Health Sciences Academy (HSA)
- School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (SMST).
Read more about this topic: Fairfax High School (Los Angeles)
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