FFA fun with goats!

As you can see you our Central Campus AgriScience students are happily showing off their award winning goats! Maryah Wright and Brandie Joy look very excited as they pose with their animal friends. Even the goats look happy …

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Fair! Fun! And FFA!

What did you do this summer? Relax? Read a good book? Get a tan? Our students in the AgriScience: Animal Science & Horticulture program were busy doing something else. As members of the FFA organization, several students worked diligently …

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Voice of America!

One of the many things we try and explore here at Central Campus is the gift of diversity. And in many ways we share this gift amongst our students and staff. Our new Assistant Director, Aiddy Phomvisay is …

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Welcome to Central Campus!

Welcome to Central Campus! We are the premier national academy for advanced career education and college prep. For all of our incoming students we encourage you and your parents or guardians to attend our Orientation Open House. This …

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SHARING THE TALENT!

Urban Leadership and their crew have recently came from their trip to the 18th Annual Brave New Voices International Poetry Festival. For the first time in 3 years, our youth qualified for semi-finals, coming in 0.8 points away …

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CULINARY ARTS STUDENTS WIN AT FCCLA NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Congratulations to all of our students participating in the FCCLA National Leadership Conference this week in Washington DC!  In the awards  ceremony this morning, our Culinary and Entrepreneurship teams won silver medals, and our Chapter Service Project team …

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WELCOME AIDDY PHOMVISAY-NEW ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Central Campus is proud and excited to introduce our new Assistant Director! Aiddy Phomvisay (pronounced ah-dee, poem-v-sigh) is honored to join the Central Campus and Des Moines Public school family. Having spent the last 4 years as the principal …

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High Schoolers Help Advance Brain Research

Students from Central Campus are helping researchers at Des Moines University study the brain. The Spring 2015 issue of DMU Magazine features a story about how DMPS high schoolers are working with professor Muhammad Spocter in his graduate-level neuroanatomy class and assisting with his canine brain studies. Click the photo to read more about another exciting STEM opportunity for DMPS students.

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ECC CDA Certificate Received

Another accomplishment to Early Childhood Careers Students at Central Campus occurred. Followed by last year’s honor, having been the first two high school students to earn CDA credentials from this program in Iowa, these two students, Haley Haskell from Hoover …

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