Participation is voluntary, yet activities in the center attract over 470 students every day. This building houses a tiered band classroom, several individual instrumental and vocal practice and lesson rooms, a large dance studio, choral and strings classroom, and a spacious multilevel art studio. The Francesco Mario Guardabassi Art Gallery provides a striking location for both student and professional exhibitions and for an extensive collection of Pre-Colombian pottery. The full-length ballets Sleeping Beauty , Match Girl and Cinderella were recently performed on campus by our students. Fine arts performance and appreciation as a member of an audience are respected activities in our school.
Many community organizations request concerts by our performing groups.
Extensive school facilities and our staff of professionally trained teachers encourage student participation. Fine arts activities provide ways for our students to be positively recognized both as individuals and as members of groups, to develop their talents for expansion in college and later life and to contribute to the quality of life in our school community. Our students must recognize computer skills as applicable to many areas of study and life. It was our purposeful decision not to tie the program to the Mathematics Department. Computer facilities are available to students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12.