Briefly in education

Orange Coast Middle College High School, on the Orange Coast College

campus, is accepting applications for the 2001-02 school year.

A total of 110 high school juniors and seniors are enrolled in the

program, which is now in its fifth year. The school is designed for

high-potential, underachieving high school students and is open to high

school students throughout Orange County. It is a collaboration between

OCC and the Newport-Mesa Unified School District.

Classes are taught by specially selected high school teachers and some

students have the opportunity to take classes that are taught by OCC

professors.

Students graduating from the school leave with a high school diploma

and a varying number of college credits. More than 50 students will

graduate during the school’s third commencement ceremony at 3 p.m. May

31.