Career Academies
Career Academies
Career Academies are small, personalized learning communities within a high school composed of a subset of students and teachers for a two-, three-, or four-year span. Students enter the academy through a voluntary process; they must apply and be accepted with parental knowledge and support. A career academy involves teachers from different subject areas working together as a team. Instructional teams, who often share common planning time, work together implementing the key features of the model while providing students with exposure to the career field. Students are teamed together several periods every day with a core group of teachers. The grouping promotes a family-like atmosphere and results in close student-teacher relationships. A career academy includes the following essential elements:
- A small learning community
- A college-prep curriculum with a career theme
- Partnerships with employers, the community and higher education
By design, these three central elements of a career academy lead to a program that is rigorous, relevant and relational.
The following high schools have career academies (*career academies that are also magnet programs):
Apopka High School
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Advanced Engineering Applications*
Information Technology
Medical Careers
Boone High School
www.boonebraves.ocps.net/
Health
Information Technology
Law and Finance*
Colonial High School
www.colonialhigh.ocps.net/
Culinary
Early Childhood
Hospitality and Tourism
Information Technology*
Veterinary Animal Science and Service*
Cypress Creek High School
www.cchs.ocps.net/
Health
Information Technology
Dr. Phillips High School
www.dphs.ocps.net/
Business
Medical
Edgewater High School
www.ehs.ocps.net/
Construction
Evans High School
www.evanshs.ocps.net/
Cosmetology
Culinary
Freedom High School
www.freedom.ocps.net/
Early Childhood
Hospitality and Tourism
Mass Media
Jones High School
www.joneshigh.ocps.net/
Information Technology and Finance*
Medical Arts
Oak Ridge High School
www.orhs.ocps.net/
Digital Media and Gaming*
Hotel Management*
Ocoee High School
www.ocoeehighschool.ocps.net/
Construction
Timber Creek High School
www.tchs.ocps.net/
Finance
Information Technology
International Business
Service Learning
Young Educators
University High School
www.uhs.ocps.net/
Wekiva High School
www.wekivahigh.ocps.net/
Mass Media
West Orange High School
www.westorangehigh.ocps.net/
Information Technology
Winter Park High School
www.wphs.ocps.net/
Information Technology