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The Baltimore School for the Arts is a national leader in preparing students for careers in the arts. The school provides qualified students with intensive training in one of four arts disciplines: the visual arts, music, theatre, or dance in combination with a comprehensive, college preparatory academic program.

A further mission of the school is to serve as an arts resource for the Baltimore community by offering performances, educational workshops, and extensive after-school training in the arts to Baltimore children.

Today, BSA graduates go on to study at the prestigious colleges, universities and conservatories. They have distinguished themselves as members of some of the country's finest dance companies, symphony orchestras, and theatre productions and as artists displaying in galleries worldwide. BSA alumni also have careers in business, human services and education.

In 1979, the President of the School Board authored a charter creating the Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA). In the form of a resolution of the school board, this charter followed many years of effort to create an arts high school, including a 1978 recommendation of the special Task Force appointed by Mayor William Donald Schaefer. The BSA was created as part of the Baltimore school system, however the charter provided the BSA with the structure and the authority to design and implement policies and programs necessary to be successful in its mission as a pre-professional arts high school. The charter stated "that it differ from other Baltimore city high schools by training students with potential for careers in the performing and visual arts."

The Baltimore School for the Arts is a four-year public high school that provides young people with intensive, pre-professional training in the arts within the context of a comprehensive, college preparatory academic curriculum. Working with a distinguished faculty, students pursue any one of four disciplines--the visual arts, music, theatre, and dance--in an environment that emphasizes professionalism and scholarship. About 300 students attend the school, coming from public and private schools in and around Baltimore. Students are accepted by audition or portfolio review.

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BSA website