News and Announcements
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LA School Report: U.S. News ranks America’s top public high schools — and for the first time, charters dominate Top 10
U.S. News and World Report has released its 2017 rankings of America’s public high schools, and for the first time ever, the majority of the schools in the top 10 are charters. |
Over 100 MPS Families Participated in LA Stands Event
Over 100 Magnolia families joined us for the first ever LA Stands event in collaboration with KIPP and Green Dot Public Schools. We were honored to have State Representative Kevin De Leon as our keynote speaker, and LAPD representatives. |
Students attend Wallis Annenberg musical "Work in Progress"
On May 3rd, a group of MSA-1's 11th and 12th grade students were given a chance to watch a musical called "Work in Progress" through a collaboration with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. |
Hidden Figure: Pioneering black exec at NASA tells how she rocketed to success
Christine Mann-Darden, the first black female executive at NASA’s Langley Research Center and a scientist featured in the book “Hidden Figures,” has a formula for breaking glass ceilings. |
MSA-1 RESEDA NAMED TOP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL IN LA UNIFIED BY U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
Magnolia Science Academy-1 (Reseda) is the top charter high school in L.A. Unified—the second year in a row a Magnolia school achieved this distinction. Magnolia Science Academy-2 (Van Nuys) was ranked in the top 6 percent of the 22,000 U.S. high schools U.S. News and World Report analyzed. |
Who Do You Want to be When You Grow Up?
On March 28th and 29th, MSA-3 Carson hosted Los Angeles County Office of Education Board President, Mr. Douglas Boyd and Board Member, Mr. James Cross during their Career Day! The board members walked through the campus as students inquired about careers and colleges. On Career Day, many professionals enlightened our scholars about their jobs, careers, and the paths they took to get there. More importantly, they were excited to have had the opportunity to discuss new and exciting career possibilities to our students. |
A Night Under the Stars
On the weekend of March 18th and 19th, eighteen juniors and seniors from MSA-3 Carson went on an overnight field trip to the Mount Wilson Observatory. This is the first time that the observatory, working with Carnegie Institution of Science, has conducted a trip of this kind. Our MSA-3 students immersed themselves into the experience, and learned a lot about astronomy and science through inquiry based activities. |
Girls Who Lead
On March 18th, MSA-8 Bell was full of young women during the annual Girls Leadership Advocacy Mentoring (GLAM) workshop. GLAM empowers young women to advocate for themselves and others while making positive life choices so they can become the leaders we all know they can be! |
Parents Visit Loyola Marymount University
Over 200 Magnolia Science Academy parents and students joined us for our first Magnolia University Day at Loyola Marymount University (LMU)! |
MPS Spring Symposium
On March 10th, school was out for students but well over 200 amazing teachers, staff and administrators were in and ready to dive into another great symposium! Our keynote speaker Brian D. Mendler was very inspiring, engaging, and interactive as he spoke about “Working Successfully with Difficult Students,” the focus of his book “The Taming of the Crew.” |
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