Dr. Dre Donates $10 Million To Help Build A New Campus At Compton High School

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Dr. Dre is giving back to the community after donating a whopping $10 million to Compton High School to help aid the construction efforts on a new $200 million campus. Once all is said and done, the school plans to name its new and improved performing arts center after the rapper, Andre’ Dr. Dre’ Young Performing Arts Center, it has been announced. “I was an artistic kid in school with no outlet for it,” the Xxplosive rapper, who dropped out of school in his teens to pursue music, said during a recent ceremony held in LA. “I knew I had something special to offer to the world, but with nothing to support my gift, schools left me feeling unseen.”

He continued, “I’ve always wondered how much further ahead I might have been had the resources I needed in school were available. If I had learned more about the business industry, I would have saved myself [an] extreme amount of time, money and most importantly, [made] a lot of friendships.” Dr. Dre actually donated the money back in 2017, but construction didn’t start until this year. And by the look of things, there are high hopes for what’s to come for Compton High School.

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The new campus will have an academic building that can hold up to 1,800 students, a football stadium, an aquatics center, a brand new gym, and a track, with current plans to finish the project by 2025. His latest kind gesture comes just under a year after it was reported that Dr. Dre had also partnered with his business partner Jimmy Iovine to open up their own high school in south LA, which will be located on the Audubon Middle School campus and initially welcome up to 124 students, with plans to expand to 250 students in the future. The school is expected to open this autumn.

 

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“Students will be exposed to new career paths and opportunities as well as increased access to top college programs through a first-class college preparatory curriculum and enhanced learning programs that focus on critical thinking and analysis,” a press release given by the Los Angeles Unified School District revealed.

Speaking of the exciting new venture, Jimmy, who is perhaps best known as the co-founder of Interscope Records, said, “We want to give the next generation of students access to a proven, revolutionary learning experience that will not only prepare them for the jobs of today but equip them to reimagine and shape the jobs, technologies and creative enterprises of the future.

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“We’ve already succeeded in higher ed; now we’re bringing it to high school.”

In 2013, Dr. Dre and Jimmy donated $70 million to the University of Southern California to help build a new project called the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation.

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