Life Academy of Health and Bioscience
We are a small school that seeks to empower students to live choice-filled lives.
Life Academy of Health and Bioscience is a small public high school in Oakland, California. Established in 2001, we serve students of diverse backgrounds in grades 6 through 12. Life Academy provides its students with a rigorous academic experience focused on Health and BioScience. We aim to prepare students to become future health professionals and are committed to providing authentic learning experiences through project-based learning, field trips, and extensive internship programs focused on health and science.
Life Academy has the highest UC and CSU acceptance rate of any high school in Oakland, with students going to schools like Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of San Francisco, UCLA, UC Davis, Smith College, and San Francisco State.
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Authentic Demonstration of Learning
Life teachers work collaboratively on grade level “defenses.” In grades 8, 10 and 12, students prepare portfolio presentations on topics such as proposals to support transgender youth or address HIV infection rates in our community. These presentations are a hallmark of our school!
Robust Academic Program
Our focus in middle school centers on literacy, language skills, and the crosscutting concepts of science. All high school students take a course trajectory that fulfills the A-G requirements and emphasizes exposure to topics and careers in the health field.
Relationships and Advisory
Life Academy teachers build trusting relationships with students and their families in “advisory.” All students meet with their advisors daily to check-in about their academics as well as any social and emotional needs. Families meet with advisors a minimum of twice a year in family conferences.
“Life Academy is a community, a home, and a family. We care about the students and each other.”
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
aryn.bowman@ousd.org
alykhan.boolani@ousd.org
Phone
(510) 879-1335
OUSD prohibits unlawful discrimination (such as discriminatory harassment, intimidation, or bullying) against any student, employee, or other person participating in district programs and activities, including, but not limited to, those programs or activities funded directly by or that receive or benefit from any state financial assistance, based on the person's actual or perceived characteristics of race or ethnicity, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital, pregnancy, or parental status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or any other characteristic identified in Education Code 200 or 220, Government Code 11135, or Penal Code 422.55 or equity or compliance with Title IX, or based on his/her association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics (5 CCR 4610). BOARD POLICY 0410. BOARD POLICY 1312.3. BOARD POLICY 4030. BOARD POLICY 5143.3. BOARD POLICY 5145.7. Complaint forms are available at school sites, on the district webpage at www.ousd.org/ombudsperson, at the Office of the Ombudsperson located at 1000 Broadway, 1st Floor, Suite 150, Oakland, CA 94607, via email at gabriel.valenzuela@ousd.org, or via telephone 510-879-4281