About Us
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.
We are a small school that seeks to empower students to live choice-filled lives.
Contact Us
2101 35th Avenue
Oakland, CA 94601
Our Mission
Life Academy seeks to dramatically interrupt patterns of injustice and inequity for underserved communities in Oakland. Through transformative learning experiences focused on Health, Medicine and Bioscience, students are engaged in learning and inspired to acquire the skills needed to succeed in college and careers in the medical field.
Our Vision for Students
Life Academy seeks to graduate students who…
- embody Life’s Core Values: Love of Learning, Integrity, Fearlessness, and Empathy
- demonstrate academic success on rigorous, standards-aligned curriculum
- read critically and with a love for learning
- build strong executive functioning skills
- have a clear and attainable post-secondary plan
- build a strong sense of cultural and community pride
Our Vision for Instructional Practice
Instruction must be excellent. Our primary task is to equip our students with the skill sets they need to live choice-filled lives. Classrooms should be spaces and places where students can feel safe, seen, valued, and pushed. Our task is achieved by:
- Building relationships with students, families and colleagues
- Cultivating a classroom culture in which joy and rigor are equally valued
- Planning and teaching units that are backwards planned from a clear set of standards and goals, giving clarity for daily instruction to students, families, and colleagues
- Ensuring aligned and standards-based curricular experiences for all students.
- Instruction that is engaging and offers multiple opportunities for students to learn, practice, and master new skills.
- Cherishing the opportunity to analyze student work together, so that we may learn from our students and be responsive to their academic needs.
