Dr. Dre And Jimmy Iovine To Open A School In Inglewood, CA, With Plans To Offer A Curriculum To Address ‘Real-World’ Problems

Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are opening a school in Inglewood, CA.

As AFROTECH™ previously reported, the duo partnered to open a South Central Los Angeles public school in 2022 to provide opportunities for students from underserved communities.

“This is for kids who want to go out and start their own company or go work at a place… like Marvel, or Apple or companies like that,” Iovine expressed at the time.

Now, they have scaled their commitment to education, announcing the Iovine and Young Center, a high school that will be coming to the community in partnership with the Inglewood Unified School District, the Los Angeles Times reports. “We wanted to start in the inner city because Dre and especially me, I owe a lot to the inner city of Los Angeles, and we intend to pay it back,” Iovine said, per the outlet. The school is projected to open in the summer of 2025, beginning with a ninth-grade class and adding a class each year until it serves freshmen through seniors. It will take the place of Crozier Middle School, which is slated to close in June 2025, per the Los Angeles Times. “We’re going to have the NBA All-Star weekend, FIFA World Cup, and the Olympics, but what’s most important is what our kids, the next generation, get out of all this,” Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. commented, per the outlet. “We want parents to want to put their children in the Inglewood Unified School District because that’s the only future for this district.” Plans for The Iovine and Young Center include programming that will create “innovative” learning pathways for students that allow them to address real-world problems. This will also include integrating capstone projects for its students. “The center is designed to reshape the high school experience through an innovative education model that combines a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum with real-world, team-based learning opportunities. This IYC initiative is set to amplify Inglewood Unified School District’s focus on creating innovative and exciting pathways for high school students,” a statement from Inglewood Unified read, per Black Enterprise.