The mission of the Smaller Learning Communities of LHS is to enable students to develop skills and knowledge through career exploration and project-based learning offered within the academies. The academy experience contributes to student success, thus building confidence and empowering students to further their education and become contributing members of the global working community.

Lowell High School has expanded the range of programs offered to better serve the diverse backgrounds, needs, interests and learning styles of its students. The academies (small schools within a school) are programs organized around a variety of academic/ career themes. Academies were designed and initiated as the result of a partnership between Lowell High School and the University of Massachusetts Lowell Project for School Progress in 1999 and have been further developed by the Smaller Learning Communities grant awarded in 2005. A team of professional staff provide guidance and instruction to students in the following

career areas:

The Smaller Learning Communities Program brings students together from various academic levels to collaborate and apply

what they have learned. Benefits of the Program include: