The global and international studies theme of the Metropolitan Learning Center emphasizes interdisciplinary global understandings. Opportunities for international exchange exist at all grade levels. A range of Advanced Placement (AP) courses are available, and both technology and world languages play integral roles across the curriculum. The school is designed around how the pre-adolescent and adolescent brains learn, and the school is considered the students' workplace. Their jobs are to learn, to grow and to give back to the community.

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Winner of the Goldman-Sachs Award for Excellence in International Education 2004

Named as a Magnet School of Distinction by the Magnet Schools of America in 2002, 2004,2005, and 2006

Named as a Magnet School of Excellence by the Magnet Schools of America in 2008

100% of MLC graduates were accepted to institutions of higher education and 80% were accepted to four year colleges