Multiple desktops/different icons?

I am a student and I use my new mbp for lots of school related things, and it would be so easy and much neater looking if I could have all school related links and icons on one desktop, and personal things on another. But I can't figure out how; no matter how I try to move them, both desktops retain the same icons. Surely there is a way to do this? I don't keep programs running if I am not actively using them so the ability to have multiple desktops seems pointless if they are identical. Thanks.
EDIT: doesn't it run down the battery faster to leave things running anyway?

There's no way to do this out of the box. However there are 3rd party programs that provide that functionality. One I know of is called Desktop Tidy.
There's no reason not to leave programs running. A program that isn't doing anything wastes no CPU cycles to speak of and if the OS really needs the memory for something else, the programs running in the background doing nothing will be auto-terminated.
I keep my email, word processor, calendar, database, browser, Reminder, notes, and several other applications running all the time.

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