The school was organized into four different sub-schools, or "houses", each with a multiple-discipline and general education focus, including a blend of students from all grades.

[3] The general education classes gave students the opportunity to debate current events, such as pollution or automation.

[4] Adams pulled students from areas that had previously been in the neighborhoods of Madison, Jefferson, and Grant high schools, which were 1%, 41%, and 9% African American, respectively.

Columbia Blvd.,[10] referred to as the Whitaker-Lakeside site[9] (which closed again in June 2005, the property sold by PPS to the Native American Youth and Family Center, or NAYA).

[6] The entire school campus eventually became contaminated with toxic black mold and radon gas.