Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts
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Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts, or LVPA, is a four-year Charter High School located minutes away from historic downtown Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
, in the Lehigh Valley
region of the state.
The school first opened in September 2003. It offers majors in Dance, Figure Skating, Instrumental Music, Vocal Music, Theatre, and Visual Art.
Students commute to the school everyday, drawing students from 40+ surrounding Pennsylvania school districts.
The student population is 449, with a high degree of ethnic and social diversity; There were 105 students in the senior class of 2008. The school celebrated their first four year graduates with the class of 2007 marking a major milestone for the school.
The faculty numbers 40, with 30 percent having advanced degrees, and an average of 7.1 years teaching experience. The current staff to student ratio is 1 to 9.1.
Students spend half of their school day studying in their artistic areas, and the other half in academic classes. There is no tuition at LVPA because it is a charter school
.
All students receive a GPA based on a 4.0 scale; however, LVPA does not rank and no courses are weighted. Pass/Fail courses are not included in the GPA.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Bethlehem is a city in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 74,982, making it the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie,...
, in the Lehigh Valley
Lehigh Valley
The Lehigh Valley, known officially by the United States Census Bureau as the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area and referred to locally as The Valley and A-B-E, is a metropolitan region consisting of Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, and Carbon counties in eastern Pennsylvania and...
region of the state.
The school first opened in September 2003. It offers majors in Dance, Figure Skating, Instrumental Music, Vocal Music, Theatre, and Visual Art.
Students commute to the school everyday, drawing students from 40+ surrounding Pennsylvania school districts.
The student population is 449, with a high degree of ethnic and social diversity; There were 105 students in the senior class of 2008. The school celebrated their first four year graduates with the class of 2007 marking a major milestone for the school.
The faculty numbers 40, with 30 percent having advanced degrees, and an average of 7.1 years teaching experience. The current staff to student ratio is 1 to 9.1.
Students spend half of their school day studying in their artistic areas, and the other half in academic classes. There is no tuition at LVPA because it is a charter school
Charter school
Charter schools are primary or secondary schools that receive public money but are not subject to some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school's charter...
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All students receive a GPA based on a 4.0 scale; however, LVPA does not rank and no courses are weighted. Pass/Fail courses are not included in the GPA.