Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
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| Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts | |
| Established | 1984 from the mergers of the High School of Music & Art ( founded 1934) and the School of Performing Arts High School (founded 1947) |
| Type | Public Secondary |
| Principal | Kim Bruno |
| Dean | Robert Turner |
| Faculty | approx. 150 |
| Students | approx. 2,500 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Location | 100 Amsterdam Ave. New York, New York USA |
| Newspaper | State of the Arts |
| Website | LaGuardia HS |
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is located near the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th Street and 64th Street. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education.
Although it also offers academic diplomas, the school prepares public high school students for professional careers and/or conservatory study in dance, drama, the visual arts, vocal and instrumental music and theater production.
Informally known as LaGuardia Arts, or LaGuardia High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is the only school among New York City's eight specialized high schools that receives special funding from the New York State legislature through the Hecht Calandra Act. The other schools are Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science, Brooklyn Technical High School, Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College, High School of American Studies at Lehman College, Brooklyn Latin School, and Staten Island Technical High School.
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[edit] History
Adjacent to New York's Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, the building that is now home to LaGuardia Arts was opened in 1984 to bring together two "sister" arts high schools of the day, The High School of Music & Art (started by Mayor LaGuardia in 1936) and the School of Performing Arts High School,established in 1947. Prior to the building's completion, Music & Art had been located on City College (CCNY)'s South Campus in Harlem on 135th Street; Performing Arts was located in midtown on 46th Street, both in Manhattan. Mayor LaGuardia regarded Music & Art as the "most hopeful accomplishment" of his long administration as mayor[1].
The movie Fame and the TV Series Fame both dramatized student life at the School of Performing Arts prior to its merger into LaGuardia High School, and an Off-Broadway show of Fame was produced in 2003-2004.
Alumni from LaGuardia and its two legacy schools, Music & Art and Performing Arts are active in supporting the students and the school through scholarships and support for special programs, school events, and reunions held at the school and throughout the world. The school's alumni organization has a full-time executive director and offices at the school. It functions as an independent charitable organization organized under the laws of New York.
[edit] Notable alumni
The following people are alumni of LaGuardia High School and its two legacy schools, The High School of Music & Art, and the School of Performing Arts High School.[2]:
[edit] Applications
Students are accepted based on auditions (Dance, Drama, Instrumental Music and Vocal Music) and portfolios (Art and Technical Theater). Their academic and attendance records are also scrutinized with most incoming students scoring at least a "3" - meeting standards - on their 7th grade standardized exams. Auditions are held from November through December.
LaGuardia High School has no specific feeder schools.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Steigman, Benjamin: Accent on Talent -- New York's High School of Music & Art Wayne State University Press, 1984 ISBN 0686879759
- ^ A more complete list is available at alumniandfriends.org
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official school website created and supported by the Parents' Association
- Website of Alumni & Friends of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
- Notable alumni of LaGuardia Arts and its two legacy schools: Music & Art and Performing Arts
- Laguardia Cycling Association created and run by current students at the school
New York City Department of Education Region 10 | |
|---|---|
| High schools | HSMSE | LaGuardia HS of Music & Art and Performing Arts |
| K-8 schools | Anderson/334 |
