Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
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Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, often referred to simply as LaGuardia or "LaG", is a public high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located near Lincoln Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. Located at 100 Amsterdam Avenue between West 64th and 65th Streets, the school is operated by the New York City Department of Education, and resulted from the merger of the High School of Music & Art and the School of Performing Arts. The school has a dual mission of arts and academics, preparing students for a career in the arts or conservatory study as well as a pursuit of higher education. The school has a long history of producing many of the country's most talented artists and is considered to be one of the most prestigious performing-arts high schools in the nation.
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Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School | |
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Address | |
100 Amsterdam Ave , 10023 United States | |
Coordinates | 40°46′27″N 73°59′08″W |
Information | |
Type | Public, Selective school |
Established | 1961; 63 years ago (1961) |
School district | New York City Geographic District #3 |
NCES School ID | 360007804458[1] |
Principal | Deepak Marwah[2] |
Teaching staff | 151.30 (on an FTE basis)[1] |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 2,381 (2022-2023)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 15.74[1] |
Campus | City: Large |
Color(s) | Red and White |
Website | www |
The school is the only one of New York City's nine specialized high schools to receive special funding from the New York State Legislature through the Hecht-Calandra Act, as well as the only specialized high school that does not use the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) as admissions criteria.[3]
The school in 2019–2020 had 3,011[4] students and 164 staff members, with a teacher–student ratio of 1:20.