The Organization:
Mission: The (ChiArts) develops the next generation of artistically gifted, diverse Chicago high school students through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum.
The Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts®) — Chicago's first public arts high school — provides a tuition-free arts and academic education to diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists from all of Chicago’s fifty wards. By providing pre-professional arts training combined with a college-preparatory academic program, ChiArts hopes to develop the next generation of diverse young artists who will thrive as the creators, thinkers, and community members of tomorrow. Now in its ninth year, ChiArts has been designated a 2016-2018 Exemplary School by the national Arts Schools Network, received the highest rating of a 1+ by the Chicago Public Schools' School Quality Rating Policy (SQRP), and remained in the top 6% of high schools in the nation as ranked by U.S. News and World Report. For more information, visit www.chiarts.org.