AIMS Academy

We exist to prepare our students to learn through work & project-based curriculum/projects and graduate them prepared to succeed in medical services.

The AIMS Academy is a school-within-a-school program funded through the California Department of Education, California Partnership Academies*. Our mission is to serve any student in the Long Beach Unified School District who is interested in investigating medical careers through academic and vocational education. Through internships, guest speakers, and hands-on career investigation, AIMS students are able to experience first hand the opportunities that exist in the medical field. The AIMS Academy provides a close family-like atmosphere where students are provided the skills necessary to set and achieve the goals that will assist them in their future.

California Partnership Academies are Secondary Specialized Programs (SSP) on high school campuses. Students are required to follow a multi-year program in a specific career pathway and complete a Career Technical Education (CTE) sequence. The Aspirations in Medical Services (AIMS) Academy at Long Beach Jordan High School was established in 1989 at the forefront of California’s adoption of the Partnership Academy Model. Throughout the programs development the Academy has produced doctors, nurses, and a variety of other healthcare and non-healthcare professionals.

Simulators, like the one pictured above, are highly sensitive,  intelligent robots that allow students to practice important medical skills without the risk of harming "real" people.  AIMS students not only have the opportunity to work with these "simulation bodies" during the Simulation Lab Course which is being made possible through a partnership with Long Beach Unified School District, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, and Long Beach City College, but students also have access to our own SIM Body at the AIMS Clinical Lab at Jordan High School. Students can earn volunteer hours and high school credit through completion of the Memorial Hospital SIM Lab Course.

AIMS offers hands on real-world experiences in every grade-level because the Health Sciences are life!

Keeping in touch with our AIMS Alumni is more important than you know!  When we hear from you, it warms our hearts and inspires us to continue the hard work we do.  So drop us an email from time to time letting us know what you are doing; others have donated time coming back to share their stories with the underclassmen and be a mentor to the up-and-coming medical professionals.  Whether you can donate time to come back and speak to the underclassmen, send funds to be used toward our scholarship program, or just drop us an email or inbox us on Instagram @jhs_aimsacademy, we love to hear from you! 

Congrats to our 2018 Certified Nursing Assistants!!