ABC Adult School - Celebrating 50 Years of Quality Services in Adult Education

Dear Community Members:

Welcome back to a new school year!

ABC Adult School is a place where student achievement is at the forefront of every decision. The Mission of the ABC Adult School is to improve the quality of life by providing our diverse community with meaningful learning opportunities to fulfill personal, educational, and workplace goals through lifelong learning.

ABC Adult School takes great pride in our long history of providing low-cost, easy-to-access, high quality education and training. As a WASC Accredited school, ABC Adult School is a diverse community with over 26 cultural groups and languages shared by students on campus. Last year, ABC Adult School served 13,529 duplicated and 11,988 unduplicated students with 1,213,626 instructional hours, and generated 2,316.76 units of ADA.

ABC Adult School is committed to engaging in active partnerships with the industry to strengthen our programs and to meet the current business and workforce needs. We entered into Memorandum of Agreement with City of Artesia, Cerritos, and Hawaiian Gardens, and provided internships with the following groups: Pioneer Medical Group, Dr. Soo Woong Kang, Dr. Helene Saad, Pro Health Partners, Lakewood Primary Care, Southern California Kaiser Permanente, West Coast Dialysis Center, CVS/pharmacy, Walgreens, and CareMore Health Plan. It is our goal to emerge stronger, more flexible, and better equipped courses to generate the knowledge and innovations the students need now more than ever.

As a diverse, comprehensive adult school, ABC Adult School provides our communities with diverse options in ten state approved course areas. We are committed to high instructional quality, student-driven program development that is meeting the express needs of our community. Just last year, ABC Adult School added several exciting new courses: such as new Pharmacy Technician Program, new Movie Animation Program, new Mac Lab, new AutoCAD, Inventor class, new computer-aided drafting program, new Compass Odyssey courses for High School Diploma Program, new Authorized Testing Center for Microsoft, Adobe tests and QuickBooks. The newest ones coming in Fall 2011 are SB 1626S, Public School Safety/Security training, Security Officer training, and many new Fee Based Classes.

The Career Technical Education Center at ABC Adult School exists to train students, not just for jobs, but careers. The center provides a job developer with 14 career paths that lead to Industry Certification in several areas including Medical Assisting, Medical Insurance Specialist, Computer Repair/IT Technician, Office Assistant, Administrative Assistant, Web Design, Graphic Design, Accounting Clerk, Pharmacy Technician, Law Enforcement, and Video Production. Industry Certification gives our students a leg up when searching for that perfect job.

So if you’re looking to train for a career, update your existing skills, improve your English, get your high school diploma, become a better parent, or even explore new life-long learning opportunities, give ABC Adult School a look. All the information you need to start is on our web site: www.abcadultschool.edu.

We are very excited about 2011-12 school year and look forward to seeing you!

Sincerely,

Dr. Pao-Ling Guo
Principal