LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts is a highly selective, widely acclaimed school that trains students for the country's best art schools and music conservatories, as well as for conventional academic colleges and universities. The eight-story building opened in 1984 with the merger of two older schools, the High School of Music and Art and the High School of Performing Arts, made famous by the movie "Fame." Students take a regular academic course load and as well as three to four periods a day of their chosen art specialty: drama, dance, vocal music, and instrumental music or studio art, and the newest specialty, technical theater, in which students learn aspects of stagecraft such as lighting and costume and set design. Professional artists, including musicians from the New York Philharmonic and the New York City Opera, teach studio courses.

I am the parent of a freshman and we are totally happy with the school, both with the academic classes, which are rigorous, and with the studio work. The academic classes have lots of writing... read more

There are some good aspects to this school and some very sickening ones. I am a parent of a senior student. It seems to me that most of the drama teachers are failed and frustrated... read more

i just want to comment about favoritism in this school. my daughter is in her junior year and favoritism is out of control. the same kids perform in every show year after year. i don't know if... read more