Health Professions High

A new high school (which opened last fall) that is part of the Sacramento City Unified School District -- Health Professions High -- was created in part to address the current and projected shortages of health professionals. Students are required to take a "rigorous science-laden curriculum" to give students a head start in the health care fields of their choice. The school could become a national model for developing a more diverse health care work force, about a third of the students are Latino, 40% are black and the rest are white or Asian.