Artist's rendering of the Science Center School and Amgen Center for Science Learning

Quick Facts
Building Size:
154,142 square feet
Groundbreaking:
February 2002
Opened:
Amgen Center for Science Learning:
May 2004
School: September 2004

The Science Center school is a development created in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school and the Amgen Center for Science Learning in the Wallis Annenberg Building are now open!

Highlights include...
• Neighborhood charter school for over 700 students
• 28 Science Center School classrooms
• 6 common rooms and an auditorium
• 10 Amgen Center for Science Learning classrooms
• Computer and science labs
• The Big Lab, an indoor/outdoor space for facilitated, hands-on science experiments
• Professional development library
• Teacher training workshops

The California Science Center and the Los Angeles Unified School District partnered to build the Science Center School, a neighborhood elementary school with a strong focus on science, math and technology. The school, which serves about 700 students in kindergarten through fifth grade, is a public charter school--not a magnet school. Students come from the areas surrounding Exposition Park. Combining traditional teaching methods with fun, new learning techniques, the Science Center School uses a hands-on, minds-on approach to learning. Right next door to the school, the Wallis Annenberg Building for Science Learning and Innovation serves as a new home for the Amgen Center for Science Learning and also houses part of the school. The Amgen Center for Science Learning develops the California Science Center's programs for students, the local community and the general public. It also offers professional development workshops for teachers, classes for parents and children, and hands-on science workshops for students. The educational resources at the Amgen Center for Science Learning will be available for the whole community--teachers, scientists, parents and children--and will also help to improve science learning across the state.

FAQs
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Progress Log
Learn about where we are in the construction process, and see pictures from the site.