FAVORITE CHARTER SCHOOL
Birmingham Community Charter High School
17000 Haynes Street, Van Nuys, CA 91406
ph: 818.758.5200
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Years Won: 2020 (Favorite), 2013-2019 (Best)
Birmingham Community Charter High School, set on our safe, clean, beautiful 76-acre campus is the top choice for secondary education in the San Fernando Valley for those interested in a comprehensive, high school with a multitude of programs, clubs and top athletic and academic programs.
As an independent charter, we have far greater flexibility and smaller class sizes than district schools. Our BCCHS community collaborates to create an academically challenging, personalized, supportive environment that prepares each student to pursue his or her post-secondary academic and career goals. We are also the proud winner of a Daily News Reader’s Choice Charter School Award for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020!
Why Birmingham? Tools and Support:
- We provide the tools and support necessary to bridge the distance in distance learning.
- Birmingham is committed to delivering a high quality distance learning experience for all students. We have adapted our learning environment and made the necessary resources available to our students.
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- All students are provided with a one-to-one Chromebook to access online classes.
- Students without internet connection are provided with a hot spot.
- Our relationship with students comes first and we ensure that disadvantages do not hinder the success of students.
- Each grade level is managed by a team of professionals including a Grade Level Lead Teacher, 2-3 Academic Counselors, a Dean, and an Administrator.
- We foster ongoing, two-way home-to-school communication and provide consistent, numerous and varied avenues of communication with our students and families.
- Our School for Advanced Studies (SAS), in partnership with local community colleges, provides dual-credit college courses for students seeking rigorous academic challenges, starting in 9th grade! Each year, more than 450 students participate in the program.
- We offer 22 Advanced Placement courses and administered over 1200 AP exams in 2019.
- Eleven Career Technical Education programs, including Culinary Arts, Medical/Sports Medicine, and Computer Training.
- Our excellent Counseling Department has 2-3 Academic Counselors per grade level as well as two College Counselors, a Career Counselor, and College Persistence Counselor to support our recent graduates in their effort to attend and persist at the college level.
- Birmingham’s Summer at College Program awards scholarships to selected rising seniors to attend summer college programs at various private and public colleges.
- Our Upward Bound (TRIO) Program, now in its fourteenth year, serves selected 9 – 12 students through mentoring, advising and tutoring.
- We offer more than 40 clubs and National Honor Society and Academic Decathlon for students.
- We have the largest sports program in the city of Los Angeles with more than 25 Sports Teams, some of which have been City-Wide and Regional Champions in the past several years, including Baseball, Football, Basketball, Cheer, Soccer, Water Polo, Swimming & Diving, Lacrosse and Wrestling.
- Our Sports Facilities are among the best on the West Coast, and include a pool, a lighted baseball field, 3 soccer fields and a recently renovated state of-the-art artificial turf football field and a tartan track (used as a training site in the 1984 Olympics)!
- Our award-winning Theatre, Choir, and Music Departments perform regularly and compete locally, state-wide and nation-wide.
- Our energetic, creative ASB Program sponsors provide frequent spirit and character building activities reflecting the values of inclusion, academic and personal integrity, and community involvement.
Why Birmingham? Academics:
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