Communications Arts High School
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Founded in 1995, Communications Arts High School is a magnet school in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The school is a part of the Northside Independent School District. The school has between 100-120 students per class.
The school is a "school within a school" sharing the campus with William H. Taft High School. The school specializes in multimedia, communications, and creative writing. The required specialized courses include Intro to Multimedia, Media Criticism, Communication Applications (Speech), Multimedia, Video Technology, and Independent Study Mentorship (ISM).
Students attending Communications Arts High School have frequent contact with William Howard Taft High School. Communications arts does not offer its own Mathematics or Physics classes, so students must go to Taft in order to take these classes. In addition, students at Communications Arts High School are able to participate in extracurricular activities at William Howard Taft High School (including their Band, Orchestra, Athletics, and Academic Decathlon teams, although students at Taft High School are unable to participate in any activities at Communications Arts.
The idea behind the creation of the school is that many job opportunities that our youth will have have not even been created yet. By specializing in communications, creative writing and multimedia, a student will be prepared for any job, whether it exists now or is yet to be created.
In 2006, it was ranked 64th on Newsweek Magazine's Top 1200 High Schools [1].
[edit] See also
- William H. Taft High School
- Business Careers High School
- Health Careers High School
- John Jay Science and Engineering Academy
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