Middle Colleges Grow in Number and Target Lower-Income, Minority Students: This fall, Maryland will become the latest in a growing number of states to open a “middle college,” or a high school housed on a college campus. Prince George’s Community College will open the Academy of Health Sciences, a high school focusing on allied health services. The school will begin accepting applications this month.
“Students must be looking for a different kind of environment, unlike the structure that exists in most public school programs,” says PGCC President Charlene Dukes. “Middle college provides students with the opportunity to engage in an environment that, we hope, will add to the intellectual stimulation that they already received in their middle schools.”
