Professional Performing Arts School

Professional Performing Arts School
PPAS
Established 1990[1]
Type Public[2]
Principal Keith Ryan [3]
Teaching staff 30 academic teachers [4]
Students 485[5]
Grades 6–12 [6]
Location 328 West 48th St. (between 8th & 9th Avenues),
New York City, New York, USA
Coordinates 40°45′42″N 73°59′19″W / 40.761536°N 73.988506°WCoordinates: 40°45′42″N 73°59′19″W / 40.761536°N 73.988506°W
District 10036
Campus Urban
Athletics dance, drama ,vocal, musical theatre
Yearbook 2009
Website http://www.ppasinfo.org/ or for students http://www.ppasnyc.org/

The Professional Performing Arts School or PPAS is a New York City public school.

History

The Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) was created in 1990 to meet the needs of two groups of students: those who wanted to pursue professional work in the arts as they earned a junior/senior high school diploma and those who wanted to study the arts as an avocation.[7]

It is the special mission of this small, personalized school to develop, refine, and showcase students in dance, drama, and vocal music while also providing them with a rigorous, meaningful academic curriculum.

Every student auditions for a performing arts major. Performing arts instruction is delivered by professional dancers, actors and musicians through professional studios.

Academic staff give students opportunities for daily study through a rigorous, comprehensive, sequential, fully integrated academic curriculum. The course of study, ending in a New York State Regents endorsed diploma, is centered around an interdisciplinary, multicultural, inquiry based approach to learning which prepares students for college and/or a professional career in the arts.

Applying to PPAS

For the most current information go the Apply to PPAS page at the official site of PPAS.

Notable alumni

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