Academic Environment & Four-Year Curriculum

Core Academics

• Every student has access to 5 AP classes. In addition, through our partnerships with SUNY Old Westbury and the National Equity Lab, students have the opportunity to take dual enrollment classes and earn college credits in Algebra, U.S. History, and Economics while in high school. This means students graduate from UASPA with a college transcript!
• Small class sizes ensures personalized attention for all students.

• We ensure a challenging college preparatory curriculum in which performing arts is used as a teaching tool in all classes to motivate students toward academic achievement.

• Our highly qualified teachers believe that all students can learn and work to build personal relationships with students to help to achieve academic success.

 

 

Performing Arts Education

• Starting in grade 9, students will be exposed to and perform in three aspects of the performing arts - Dance, Theatre, and Vocal.
• After a brief rotation through the majors, students will declare an area of concentration in one of the three performing arts offered.
• Students continue their studies throughout their four years at UASPA, culminating in the Arts Exit Exams taken during senior year as a prerequisite to earning the Arts Endorsement on their diplomas.

 

 

Four Year Sequence

 

	9th Grade	10th Grade	11th Grade	12th Grade
English/Literacy	English 9 Literacy	English 10	AP English Language	AP English Literature
Math	Algebra 1	Geometry	Algebra 2 / Trigonometry	AP Statistics
Science	Living Environment	Earth Science	Chemistry	AP Psychology
Social Studies	Global 9	Global 10	AP US History	Government and Economics
Foreign Language		Spanish
PE / Health	PE 9 Health	PE 10	PE 11	PE 12
Arts	Dance 9 Theatre 9 Vocal 9	Dance 10 Theatre 10 Vocal 10	Dance 11 (3 credits) Theatre 11 (3 credits) Vocal 11 (3 credits)	Dance 12 (3 credits) Theatre 12 (3 credits) Vocal 12 (3 credits)