Professional Performing Arts School
One extraordinary 6-12 School with incredible staff, inspiring partnerships and endless student talent!
It is the special mission of this small, personalized public school to develop, refine, and showcase students in dance, drama, musical theater, vocal, and film, while providing them with a comprehensive and rigorous academic curriculum. A wide range of performing arts courses are taught by professional artists and arts organization who offer training to meet the needs of the beginner student and the professional actor, singer, musician, dancer and film-maker.
Dance • Drama • Musical Theater • Vocal • Film
Performing arts classes are taught by professional from the following organizations:
The Ailey School, The National Chorale, Ballet Tech, School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theater,
Manhattan Youth Ballet, Rosie’s Theater Kids, Evolution Arts, and Juilliard
The Ailey School, The National Chorale, Ballet Tech, School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theater,
Manhattan Youth Ballet, Rosie’s Theater Kids, Evolution Arts, and Juilliard
Curriculum and Courses
Acknowledging the needs for students to prepare for wider opportunities than any single profession may offer, PPAS offers an academically challenging, college pareparatory course of study centered upon an interdisciplinary, multicultural, inquiry-based approach to learning.
Predicting the statewide trend towards a Regents curriculum, all students at PPAS have always been required to take a full load of challenging Regents level courses. In order to graduate, they must pass 5 NY State Regents exam requirements, earning a 65 or above on a Math, Science, ELA, US History, and Global Studies exam. Graduation standards for students with IEPs are modified.
PPAS offers AP Literature, AP Language, AP Calculus, AP US History, AP Biology, and AP Chemistry. The GPA is weighted for AP courses only – the number grade is multiplied by a factor of 1.1 and calculated as that in the overall GPA. PLEASE BE AWARE that because of our limited staffing, most students can only fit 2 Advanced Placement courses in their schedule per year.
We offer multiple sections of Spanish year 2 and Spanish year 3 and some students receive high school Foreign Language credit through a proficiency exam taken in 8th grade. Students with high GPA standing are approached to join the National Honor Society either junior or senior year.
A longer school day provides students with academic classes in the morning and performing arts classes in the afternoon. Collaboration with On Location Education, a PPAS teacher coordinator and an on-site tutor, allows students who are in performance to maintain a consistent academic program.
Predicting the statewide trend towards a Regents curriculum, all students at PPAS have always been required to take a full load of challenging Regents level courses. In order to graduate, they must pass 5 NY State Regents exam requirements, earning a 65 or above on a Math, Science, ELA, US History, and Global Studies exam. Graduation standards for students with IEPs are modified.
PPAS offers AP Literature, AP Language, AP Calculus, AP US History, AP Biology, and AP Chemistry. The GPA is weighted for AP courses only – the number grade is multiplied by a factor of 1.1 and calculated as that in the overall GPA. PLEASE BE AWARE that because of our limited staffing, most students can only fit 2 Advanced Placement courses in their schedule per year.
We offer multiple sections of Spanish year 2 and Spanish year 3 and some students receive high school Foreign Language credit through a proficiency exam taken in 8th grade. Students with high GPA standing are approached to join the National Honor Society either junior or senior year.
A longer school day provides students with academic classes in the morning and performing arts classes in the afternoon. Collaboration with On Location Education, a PPAS teacher coordinator and an on-site tutor, allows students who are in performance to maintain a consistent academic program.