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Specialized high school in New York Metropolis

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and Performing Arts
The exterior of LaGuardia, one block west of Lincoln Center
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100 Amsterdam Avenue Upper West Side, New York , New York 10023 The states
Coordinates	40°46′27″Due north 73°59′08″W  /  40.77417°North 73.98556°W  / 40.77417; -73.98556 Coordinates: forty°46′27″N 73°59′08″W  /  40.77417°N 73.98556°W  / forty.77417; -73.98556
Information
Blazon	Selective school
Established	1961; 61 years agone  (1961)
School commune	10
NCES School ID	360007804458[4]
Principal	Yeou-Jey Vasconcelos[ane] [2] [3]
Teaching staff	141.08 (FTE) (2017–18)[4]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	two,819 (2017–18)[4]
Student to instructor ratio	19.98:1 (2017–xviii)[4]
Color(south)	Crimson White
Website	www.laguardiahs.org

Fiorello H. LaGuardia Loftier School of Music & Fine art and Performing Arts, often referred to only every bit LaGuardia, is a public magnet high schoolhouse specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located nigh Lincoln Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, in the U.Due south. country of New York. Located at 100 Amsterdam Artery between West 64th and 65th Streets, the school is operated by the New York Metropolis Section of Education, and resulted from the merger of the High Schoolhouse of Music & Fine art and the School of Performing Arts. The school has a dual mission of arts and academics, preparing students for a career in the arts or conservatory study also as a pursuit of higher pedagogy.

The schoolhouse is the only one amidst the nine specialized high schools in New York City that receives special funding from the New York State legislature through the Hecht-Calandra Act, also equally the only specialized high school that does non use the Specialized Loftier Schools Admissions Exam (SHSAT) equally admissions criteria.^[5]

The school in 2019–2020 has 3,011^[6] students and 164 staff members, with a teacher–student ratio of 1:xx.

History [edit]

The High School of Music & Art was founded by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in 1936. He wanted to establish a public school in which students could hone their talents in music, art and the performing arts. In 1948, a similar institution – the High Schoolhouse of Performing Arts – was created in an effort to harness students' talents in dance. The schools merged on paper in 1961^[7] and were to be combined in i building. Withal, this took many years.

In 1984, the schools moved to a new physical building, designed by Argentine builder Eduardo Catalano and side by side to Lincoln Center. The Board of education honored Mayor LaGuardia posthumously by naming the new building after him. Prior to the building's completion in 1985,^[8] Music & Art – colloquially known as "The Castle on the Colina" – was located in Manhattan at Convent Avenue and 135th Street in what has since become role of Metropolis College of New York'due south Southward Campus; the building is dwelling to A. Philip Randolph Campus Loftier Schoolhouse. Performing Arts was located in Midtown Manhattan on West 46th Street. Mayor La Guardia regarded Music & Fine art equally the "most hopeful achievement" of his long administration every bit mayor.^[9]

Alumni from LaGuardia and its 2 legacy schools, Loftier School of Music and Fine art and School of Performing Arts,^[ten] are agile 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 earth. The school's alumni system has a full-time executive director and offices at the schoolhouse.^[11] It functions equally an independent charitable organization organized under the laws of New York. The prestigious Fame School has built upwards a reputation as the #1 ranked performing arts high school in NYC.

Academic curriculum [edit]

Students at LaGuardia take a full academic grade load while participating in conservatory-mode arts concentration. Each student majors in one studio, choosing from either Dance, Drama, Art, Song Music, Instrumental Music, or Technical Theater.

Many graduates from LaGuardia go along their studies in universities or conservatories after graduation.^[12]

Students can take honors classes by choice or programming. LaGuardia likewise offers several Advanced Placement courses.

Studio curriculum [edit]

The school presents an annual musical. The Musical Theater course, an constituent schoolhouse-wide course, is offered through the collaboration of kinesthesia members from Music, Drama, Dance, and the Tech Theater Studios, culminating in a major musical theater performance. Contempo productions accept included Gypsy, Les Misérables, W Side Story, Hair, Ragtime, Hairspray, Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity, Grease, In the Heights, Beauty and the Beast, The Audio of Music, and Cinderella.^[13]

Art [edit]

For the first two years of education, the art department stresses traditional creative skills and discipline. Students piece of work on drawing from observation, learning colour theory, and the principles of pattern.^[fourteen] Post-obit this, students elect vocationally oriented courses in the fine arts such as Digital Media, Compages, Painting, Sculpture, and Photography. In their senior year, art majors can submit portfolios to the department for consideration for a place in the senior galleries, which are a series of shows organized and constructed by the called students and a student curator.

Music [edit]

The music department features two symphony orchestras, five choirs, four cord ensembles, two concert bands, two jazz bands, a sleeping room grouping, a gospel choir, a show choir, and an opera visitor with a pit orchestra. Vocal and instrumental students written report in a conservatory curriculum featuring three hours of music per day, including performing ensembles, electives (in areas such every bit music technology and limerick), music theory and history. The department has done featured work with composers and organizations such as Eric Whitacre, Josh Groban, Arturo O'Farrill, Béla Fleck and NPR'southward Radiolab.

Instrumental programs [edit]

Every educatee in the instrumental department must bring together a performing ensemble as well every bit a class specific to their instrument's musicological nomenclature (i of three winds ensembles, three cord orchestras or a percussion corp). After completing their first year with an ensemble, students may fulfill the balance of performance credits with electives.

• The LaGuardia Philharmonia ("Junior Orchestra") was formed with the goal of exposing students to more than complex and professional repertoire.
• The LaGuardia Symphony ("Senior") Orchestra accepts students through a rigorous secondary audition process. Information technology is one of LaGuardia'due south best known ensembles.
• Junior Jazz teaches elementary jazz performance and theory.
• Senior Jazz is the schoolhouse's premier, award-winning jazz band.
• Bedchamber Ensemble
• Inferior Band was formed every bit an alternative to the orchestral plan, exposing wind, brass and percussion students to repertoire that features their instruments.
• Symphonic Band
• Pit Orchestra, a programme consisting of 2 distinct ensembles that perform with the annual musical and opera. In 2014, the musical pit orchestra worked with Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of In The Heights to help workshop their ain production of the musical.^[fifteen]

Song programs [edit]

Every student in the song department must perform with Elementary Chorus within their starting time or second year. At the secondary level, students must perform with either Mixed Chorus or Girls' Chorus. Third-yr vocal music majors must complete an additional twelvemonth of chorus, performing either with Mixed Chorus, Women's Chorus, or Senior Chorus.

• Women's Chorus is an all-female grouping that is open up to third- and fourth-year vocalism students. It is not audition-based.
• Senior Chorus is a competitive constituent grade open to juniors and seniors. The ensemble is one of LaGuardia'due south well-nigh well known and has been routinely selected to perform for the American Choral Directors Association.
• Gospel Chorus is an elective open up to all students.
• Show Choir is also an elective form that accepts students from whatsoever studio.
• Opera Workshop is open to third- and fourth-year vocal majors through audience, where operatic works are analyzed and studied. The opera of choice is performed halfway through the spring semester. In 2011, the Broadway musical squad of Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin announced a musical with LaGuardia's Opera Workshop and Pit Orchestra. The musical, entitled Life of the Party, is a one-act based on Stalinist picture show musicals of the Soviet Wedlock. The work ran from May 3 through May 6, 2012.
• Solo Voice teaches operatic solos through private instruction.

Musicology programs [edit]

Every music student must pass an unproblematic sight singing course as well as a year of music theory and history in order to graduate.

• The LaGuardia New Music Ensemble focuses on pop music composition and theory. Students are able to compose their ain original songs and perform them during school productions. The ensemble grants admission through auditions, in which a portfolio is required.
• Music Engineering is a class in music production, electronic music history and estimator theory.
• Composition is taught through private instruction, currently with composer Jim Pugliese.

Drama [edit]

The Drama studio at LaGuardia is highly competitive. The students do not get a chance to perform publicly until their junior year with musical theater, or senior year during the Leap Drama Festival. The exceptions for drama students' ability to perform are the annual schoolhouse musical, in which any second-, third-, or fourth-year student may audience for any number of roles, and the Ascension Stars talent show,^[16] where any grouping of students can set an act.

There are several guest teachers in the drama department, who are featured specially in the junior and senior courses. Jake Gyllenhaal,^[17] Alan Rickman and Darren Criss take visited to speak with students, and contempo graduates Timothée Chalamet^[eighteen] and Ansel Elgort have also returned. Rap goddess Nicki Minaj is too a drama department graduate. The kinesthesia members of the department include AP Sandy Faison, Harry Shifman, Lee Lobenhoffer and Robert Krausz. Actress Ally Sheedy teaches at the school full fourth dimension.^[nineteen]

Trip the light fantastic [edit]

The Trip the light fantastic toe Section is based strictly on pre-conservatory-based training in the field of trip the light fantastic toe. Students spend the first two years training solely in classical ballet and the combined modern techniques of Graham and Horton. In their inferior yr they are given the opportunity to take musical theater and tap classes. Across that, the junior grade performs for the first time junior year. The second semester of junior twelvemonth they accept a choreography class in which they create pieces of their own to perform. Senior year, the dancers take career management classes to support their success and take office in 2 performances: the Wintertime Showcase and the Graduation Dance Concert of the spring.^{[ citation needed ]}

Alumni of the program include Desmond Richardson and Suzanne Vega.^{[ citation needed ]}

Technical theater [edit]

The Technical Theater Studio is a professional person training program that provides students with the skills and techniques necessary to pursue a career in technical theater. Concepts and aesthetics are taught using contemporary teaching methods that utilize country-of-the-art equipment. Professionally produced events in the concert hall, thrust-stage theater, and black-box theater provide students with practical easily-on work experiences.^{[ citation needed ]}

Transportation access [edit]

The New York City Subway's 66th Street–Lincoln Center (1 train) and 59th Street–Columbus Circle (1​, A, ​B, ​C, and ​D trains) stations are located nearby.^[20] Additionally, New York Metropolis Passenger vehicle's M5, M7, M11, M20, M66 and M104 routes stop about LaGuardia Loftier School.^[21] Students residing more than a certain altitude from the school are provided full-fare or one-half-fare educatee MetroCards for public transportation.

Sports [edit]

LaGuardia offers 21 unlike sports on the Varsity level. It is one of eight schools in New York City which however runs the Gymnastics Programme. LaGuardia competes with the Public School Athletic League (PSAL). Fall season sports include bowling, swimming, volleyball, cantankerous land (girls'), fencing (co-ed), soccer, and cross country (boys'). Winter season sports include basketball, gymnastics, and indoor track (boys' and girls'). In the bound, the schoolhouse offers baseball, outdoor rails, tennis, volleyball (boys'), handball, softball and lawn tennis (girls').^[22]

Representation in other media [edit]

The 1980 dramatic picture Fame was based on educatee life at the Schoolhouse of Performing Arts prior to its merger into LaGuardia High School. A telly serial based on the film, Fame, was launched in 1982. It was adapted once more equally a stage musical, which premiered in 1988. A loose remake of the film was released in 2009.^{[ citation needed ]}

Drugs and mental health issues [edit]

The use of illegal substances is very prevalent in Laguardia High School. The school has documented issues with heavy drugs such as opioids and other pharmaceuticals.^[23] Mental health is also a very large outcome at the school. The school day at Laguardia is the longest in the urban center, with most students in school from 8 am to 4:09 pm.^[24] This paired with homework and practicing talents likewise as other obligations has taken a toll on the mental health of the student body, peculiarly in recent years. This is axiomatic in the NYCDOE's schoolhouse snapshot surveys which reveal that 81% of students say they experienced stress while learning at Laguardia Loftier School.^[25] Additionally, in the 2019–2020 NYCDOE surveys, but 46% of students reported that their teachers back up them when they're upset.^[26]

Meet also [edit]

• List of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni
• Professional person Children's School
• Professional Performing Arts School
• Schoolhouse of American Ballet
• Special Music School

References [edit]

1. ^ Orlen, Vivian (Oct 24, 2019). "Message from Superintendent Vivian Orlen re. Declaration of LaGuardia Arts Principal". Fiorello H. LaGuardia Loftier Schoolhouse.
2. ^ Brody, Lesile (July 8, 2019). "' Fame' High School in New York Urban center Names Interim Master". The Wall Street Periodical . Retrieved July 8, 2019.
3. ^ Orlen, Vivian (July 8, 2019). "Important Announcement from Superintendent Vivian Orlen - News and Announcements". Fiorello H. Laguardia High School Of Music & Art and Performing Arts . Retrieved July viii, 2019 – via world wide web.laguardiahs.org.
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9. ^ Steigman, Benjamin: Accent on Talent — New York'south Loftier Schoolhouse of Music & Fine art, Wayne Land Academy Press, 1984 ISBN 0-686-87975-9
10. ^ Mick Andreano. "SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS ALUMNI". Retrieved March 10, 2016.
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12. ^ "S. 485 Fiorello H. LaGuardia HS of Music & Art and Performing Arts". Archived from the original on Nov 26, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
13. ^ "LaGuardia Arts". Archived from the original on Nov 14, 2012. Retrieved November 2, 2012.
14. ^ "LaGuardia Arts–Art Studio". Archived from the original on February x, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
15. ^ Sperling, Benjamin. "Lin-Manuel Miranda Workshop at LaGuardia HS". In The Heights Rehearsal.
16. ^ "RISING STARS 2021: Backside THE MASK". LaGuardia Loftier Schoolhouse. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
17. ^ "Jake Gyllenhaal on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
18. ^ "Timothée Chalamet Fans on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
19. ^ "Ally Sheedy - Acting Motorbus". My Learning Springboard inc. Apr 22, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
20. ^ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Upper West Side / Central Park" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2018. Retrieved October ane, 2018.
21. ^ "Manhattan Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authorization. July 2019. Retrieved December one, 2020.
22. ^ "LaGuardia Arts–Student Life". Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Retrieved March eight, 2010.
23. ^ Chapman, Ben. "New York Metropolis's opioid crisis seeps into public schools as drug counselors meet uptick in student addicts". New York Daily News . Retrieved February 5, 2022.
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External links [edit]

• Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorello_H._LaGuardia_High_School

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