High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Show map of the US: Information Established 1971 High School for the Performing and Visual Arts ( HSPVA or PVA) is a located at 4001 Stanford Street in the district of. The school is a part of the. The school educates grades nine through twelve. The school is divided into six departments: instrumental music, vocal music, dance, theater (including technical theater), visual arts, and creative writing (new to the 2011-2012 school year). Visual Arts was formed by the merging of what were formerly separate art and media departments.

However, students may initially audition for multiple art areas if accepted are required to enroll in the school under only one art area, with later exceptions in rare cases, excelling students with enough credits are allowed to re-audition and with approval balance multiple art disciplines. At the end of every semester students complete a re-audition or portfolio review which does not determine whether or not they return to the school; reviews serve as part of the final grade for each art area. Students who fail classes (Both academic and art area) are placed on art area probation which makes them ineligible to participate in art area activities. If a student repeatedly fails his or her art area or academics he will most likely be removed from the school. HSPVA was placed as the top school in the Greater Houston Area by 's 2009 annual ranking of high schools, and it still remains on the top ten list in 2012. Since 2003, HSPVA has had eight students named US Presidential Scholars in the Arts () by the as selected by the National YoungArts Foundation (). HSPVA does not automatically take in students from the surrounding neighborhood; the surrounding neighborhood is zoned to.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • Art areas [ ] There are six art areas: vocal music, instrumental music, dance, theatre, visual art, and creative writing. There are subdivisions within some of these art areas. Instrumental Music breaks down into band, orchestra, jazz, mariachi, and piano. Theatre breaks down into musical theatre, acting, and technical theatre. A creative writing department was added in the 2011-2012 school year, raising questions about HSPVA's size and whether the current building will be able to house a new department. [ ] History [ ].

The school was established in the former HSPVA was established in 1971. The HISD Office of Board Services had, by January 1971, received letters written by art organizations in Houston. Those letters advocated for the creation of an arts magnet school. The motion to establish this school was passed unanimously by the HISD school board during a period when it was divided ideologically. HSPVA was not the first magnet school in the U.S., but it was technically the first magnet school in Houston; this status was mistakenly attributed to. HISD chose Ruth Denney as the school's founding director.

The district asked Denney to choose between three potential sites: W. Cleveland Elementary School, Montrose Elementary School, and the former building.

After touring them, Denney selected the temple building and in May 1971 the final plans for HSPVA were presented to the school board. The school moved to 4001 Stanford Street, the site of the former Montrose Elementary School, in 1982. [ ] In the 1990s, there was a proposal to move HSPVA to the Bob R. Casey Federal Building in. Plans existed for a new HSPVA building to be located near the in Houston's Freedmen's Town Historical District in the. The new building would have included a 2000+ seat state-of-the-art theater, updated facilities and possibly a recording studio. Construction was temporarily delayed due to the discovery of a possible -era cemetery.

In June 2007, the project page for the building displayed 'CANCELLED.' The site that was to have the new HSPVA instead has the new. New campus [ ] A block in Downtown Houston which currently holds a parking lot is a proposed new location for HSPVA. It formerly housed; at a later point the building housed the HISD headquarters.

Accredited Online High Schools and High School Diploma Programs. There are a growing number of accredited online high schools that are offering students an. Pre-College is open to all students who are 14 - 18 years of age and will be enrolled in high school in Fall 2018. Approximately 400 students participate in the summer program and 200 students live in SVA housing. Students living in housing during the program must be mature, responsible and ready for the creative and.

The proposed building which would be five stories and 168,000 square feet (15,600 m 2) in size, has a cost of $ $80.2 million. Ensler Architects designed the building, which is in the Houston Theater District. Groundbreaking occurred on December 14, 2014. Its opening is scheduled for 2018.

On October 13, 2016, the Houston Independent School District Board of Trustees sold the naming rights to the for a $7.5 million donation for capital improvements to the new facility. The school's official name of Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts or Kinder HSPVA will take place when the school moves to the new downtown location. The district's original plans for HSPVA, without the deal, would not have been built partly due to inflation decreasing the value of the. Some critics [ ] argued that financial mismanagement also contributed to the situation. One HISD board member, Jolanda Jones, spoke against the deal, arguing that it was selling out the rights to name a school and that HISD was not giving attention to the non-specialty schools in the district. Jones and Diana Davila were the only board members to vote against the deal. Mike Lunceford, a board member who supported the proposal, stated that the state government was not going to give additional funding, and other trustees supported the deal.

Most speakers at the board meeting, including community members and HSPVA students and parents, supported the deal. Demographics [ ] The demographics for the 2011 - 2012 school year are listed below.

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Houston Independent School District. From the original on November 8, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2015. Matt Mullenweg - The founder of Wordpress is a Houston ISD graduate. In this video, HISD alumnus Matt Mullenweg describes his experiences at HISD schools, including Parker Elementary and HSPVA, and explains how he created Wordpress. • Sorenson, Edith (May 30, 1996).. October 21, 2008 – via IMDb.

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Further reading [ ] • Levine, S. (December 13, 1981). New arts school should be the envy of districts everywhere., Section 2, 13, 17.

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