High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

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High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA for short) is a secondary school located at 4001 Stanford Street in the Montrose district of Houston, Texas. The school is a part of the Houston Independent School District.

The school serves grades nine through twelve and is perhaps the second-most widely known performing arts school in the United States, after the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (AKA "LaGuardia Arts" and informally known as the "Fame School") in New York City, New York. The school is divided into five departments: instrumental music, vocal music, dance, theatre (including technical theatre) and visual arts. Students are required to audition for entry under one, and only one, art area. At the end of every semester students complete a re-audition or portfolio review which determines whether they will continue at HSPVA.

Academics are also a high priority at the school, which prizes itself its high standardized test scores and offers a variety of Advanced Placement and Pre-AP courses. Students must meet standards in art, academia, and personal conduct, or they risk their place at HSPVA, which is widely viewed as a haven for intelligent, creative and challenging thought.

The school has also had remarkable success in the ARTS competition hosted by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in Miami, Florida. Since the contest's conception, HSPVA has sent one or more students per year to the finalist stage to compete for the Presidential Scholarship and has had numerous students receive honorable mention or merit awards which represent the top 5% and 10% of the nation's young artists, respectively.

HSPVA does not automatically take in students from the surrounding neighborhood; the surrounding neighborhood is zoned to Lamar High School.

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[edit] History

HSPVA was established in 1971 [1] at the San Jacinto High School building. The school moved to 4001 Stanford Street on the site of the former Montrose Elementary School in 1981.

Plans are currently underway for a new HSPVA building [2], to be located near the Gregory-Lincoln Education Center in Houston's Freedmen's Town Historical District in the Fourth Ward. The new building will include a 2000+ seat state-of-the-art theater, updated facilities and possibly a recording studio. Construction is currently delayed due to the discovery of a possible American Civil War-era gravesite. As with the old site, HSPVA will not automatically take in students from the surrounding neighborhood; the surrounding neighborhood is zoned to Reagan High School.

[edit] Before HSPVA

HSPVA has no actual feeder patterns since it is a magnet school and takes students from all over HISD.

HSPVA takes students from many HISD middle schools. In addition, some students who are enrolled in private schools in the 8th grade choose to go to HSPVA for high school [3] [4] [5].

[edit] Notable alumni

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