University Prep Value High School News

Providing our students with access to exciting, inspiring, interactive experiences and inviting our friends and students to participate is one of our fun challenges for our Value Schools Foundation Board in 2023.

Our second guiding value reminds us that every student should be provided the tools to develop to her or his fullest potential. Each and every day students at Value Schools are given opportunities to do just that.

On November 4, 2022 Linda Gunn and her team at Gunn-Jerkens Marketing and Communications offered another interactive marketing experience for students at her firm in Long Beach.

Our students were excited about what they learned at the full service immigration law firm.

Long-time Value Schools’ supporter Dr. Pearl Grimes provided an exceptional Career Exploration event at her Wilshire Boulevard medical office this week.

For nearly fifteen years, Dr. Pearl Grimes has supported our students by providing free dermatological care and hosting classes on table etiquette. From Dr. Grimes' perspective the experience is not only about having a good time. It provides training for students to help level the playing field as they think about college and work.

Students were thrilled when Catherine Liang, named Miss California 2022, visited our campuses. Complete with crown and sash, one of our youngest students exclaimed, "I want to hug the princess!"

It is hard to believe but Value Schools has been educating students for over twenty years. Dr. Jerome Porath, our founder, opened Downtown Value School in 2002. Central City Value High School opened in the fall of 2003 with 88 ninth grade students. And, of course, our story continued as we opened Everest Value School in 2014 and University Prep Value High School in 2015.

The Value Schools Foundation works with leaders throughout our community to find new and exciting ways for donors and friends to make a lasting difference in the lives of our students – by sharing their professional insight and talent with young people eager to learn.

One of the exciting new ways to give back to our community is by creating a career exploration day at your business.  We are asking our friends to create an interactive half- or full-day experience where students learn and explore the careers inside your business or organization.