SCHOOL PROFILE 2017-2018 Head of School: Jason Patera 1010 W. Ave. Chicago, IL 60642-5414 [email protected] P: 312.421.0202 College Counselor: Sarah Langford F: 312.421.3816 [email protected] chicagoacademyforthearts.org Dean of Students: Elizabeth Cunningham CEEB/ACT Code: 140-627 [email protected]

ABOUT THE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS Established in 1981, The Chicago Academy for the Arts is a nationally recognized, internationally influential independent high school acclaimed for its unique co-curricular program composed of rigorous college-preparatory academics and professional- level arts training. Designated a National School of Distinction by the John F. Kennedy Center, The Chicago Academy for the Arts provides a challenging and stimulating environment in which young scholar-artists master the skills necessary for academic success, critical thought, and creative expression.

MISSION FACULTY ACADEMIC CURRICULUM The Chicago Academy for the Arts The Academy’s faculty consists of 55 The Academy’s rigorous, college- transforms emerging artists through a members, including full-time, certified preparatory academic program is curriculum and culture which connect academic teachers and arts instructors, built upon core studies in English, intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, as well as part-time artist-teachers mathematics, science, social studies, and creativity to impart the skills to of local, national, and international and world languages. Honors courses lead and collaborate across diverse acclaim. The student-to-faculty ratio are offered in selected disciplines. AP communities. is 4:1. Fifty-three percent of Academy courses are offered during a student’s teachers hold graduate degrees. junior and senior years. STUDENT BODY Students are admitted to The Academy ACCREDITATION each year based on demonstrated The Academy is accredited by the ability in both academics and the arts. Independent Schools Association of the For the 2017-2018 school year, 60% Central States (ISACS) and is a member of applicants were accepted to The in good standing of the National Academy. Association of Independent Schools The 126 students of The Academy form (NAIS). The Academy is recognized by a diverse community: 65% Caucasian, the Illinois State Board of Education 18% African American/Black, 8% Latino/ (ISBE) and is a member of the Illinois Hispanic American, 3% Asian American, High School Association (ISHA) and the 3% Multiracial American, and 2% Arts School Network (ASN). International. Academy students live in Chicago, its suburbs, and beyond: 51% Chicago, 47% suburbs, 2% ARTS CURRICULUM international. Many students commute Each student is a member of one of over three hours each day to attend The Academy’s six arts departments: The Academy. Dance, Media Arts, Music, Musical Theatre, Theatre, or Visual Arts. Each Approximately 60% of students department provides core courses receive need-based tuition assistance that immerse the students in the each year. A total of $1.1 million was discipline of the respective department. awarded for the 2017-2018 school year. Faculty members assess students individually in each course each semester. In addition to their regular Ninety-six percent of the students of A Little Night Music, 2016 the Class of 2017 were admitted to arts classwork, students participate universities, colleges, art institutes, in numerous productions throughout DAILY SCHEDULE or conservatories. The 42 students the school year. The Academy has The Academy’s school day begins at comprising the class were collectively over 100 productions each year, 8:30 AM and consists of six 45-minute awarded over $9 million in college including concerts, plays, musicals, academic periods followed by a three- scholarships. readings, screenings, and exhibitions. hour immersion in the student’s Additionally, The Academy’s urban respective arts discipline. The average academic class size is 15 location offers students unparalleled students. access to, and partnerships with, some While the standard school day officially of the world’s most renowned arts ends at 4:30 PM, students are required organizations and professionals. to stay later on the majority of school days for rehearsals, performances, Seniors in each arts department also private lessons, or student-led projects. present major final projects (such The Academy’s extended school day as recitals, exhibits, and films) as a and the significant commutes of many graduation requirement. of our students limit their availability for extra-curricular activities. GRADING POLICY HONORS AND AP COURSES GRADING SCALE The Academy provides a cumulative The Academy offers eight honors-level GPA that includes both academic and courses and ten AP courses. These Grade Standard Honors AP arts courses as well as a cumulative courses are offered to students based A 4 4.5 5 GPA that includes academic courses upon teacher recommendation. Due to B 3 3.5 4 only. The Academy does not rank its AP course availability and scheduling C 2 2.5 3 students. conflicts, students are typically able D 1 1 1 to take a total of no more than five AP F 0 0 0 courses. Honors and AP courses are weighted in the GPA.

COURSE OFFERINGS SUBJECT/REQUIREMENTS COURSES Honors and AP courses are highlighted. A one-semester course is equal to .5 credits. Course titles reflect changes made at the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year.

ENGLISH • African * • Latin American Literature* • Native American Literature* • American Literature • Literature and Composition • * 4 credits • Analysis and Composition • Literature and the Comedic Form* • Shakespeare as Literature and • AP & Composition • Literature of World War I* Drama* *One-semester course. Not • Chicago Literature* • Literature Through Film* • Women’s Literature* offered yearly. • Freshman English • Myth and Hero* MATHEMATICS • Algebra I • AP Statistics • Honors Algebra II • Algebra II • Discrete Mathematics • Honors Geometry 3 credits • AP Calculus AB • Geometry • Honors Precalculus • AP Calculus BC • Honors Algebra I • Precalculus

SCIENCE • Anatomy & Physiology • Biology • Physics • AP Computer Science Principles • Chemistry 3 credits SOCIAL STUDIES • AP Art History • Honors Philosophy* • U.S. History • AP European History • Honors World Religions* • World History 3 credits • AP Psychology • Modern American History Through • Global Affairs Film *Offered in alternating years

WORLD LANGUAGES • AP French • French I-III • Honors Spanish IV 2 credits • AP Spanish • Honors French IV • Spanish I-III ARTS ELECTIVES • Business & the Arts • Music Composition • Urban Design • Introduction to Acting • Studio Art • Video Production (Offered to students of all arts departments)

Each student is a member of one of the following arts departments and must complete the courses shown.

DANCE • Ballet A, B, & C • Men’s Class • Pas de Deux • Dance Composition • Modern Graham Technique A, B, & C • Pointe A & B • Jazz A, B, & C

MEDIA ARTS • Animation Studies • Expanded Narrative • Publications Lab • Animation Techniques • Fiction • Screenwriting • Audio Production • Film Aesthetics • Sequential Narrative • Cinematography • Introduction To Creative Writing • Studio • Creative Non-Fiction • Media Design • Video Production • Directing • Poetry • Workshop

MUSIC • Chamber Ensemble • Jazz Combo • Piano Lab • Classical Vocal Workshop • Jazz Vocal Workshop • Studio • Composition • Music History • Theory and Ear Training I, II, and Advanced

MUSICAL THEATRE • Advanced Acting • Introduction to Acting • Voice Repertoire and Music *Through Dance Dept. • Dance* • Musical Theatre Studio I and II Theory • Intermediate Acting • Private Voice Instruction

THEATRE • Acting for the Camera* • Directing • Playwriting* • Advanced Acting • Improvisation* • Scenic, Lighting, & Sound Design • Circus* • Intermediate Acting • Script Analysis *One-semester course • Combat for Stage and Screen* • Introduction to Acting • Stagecraft • Costume Concepts* • Makeup for Stage and Screen* • Stage Management • Voice and Movement

VISUAL ARTS • Color Theory • Interdisciplinary Art • Printmaking • Design • Painting • Sculpture • Drawing ACT SCORES, FIVE-YEAR AVERAGE Section Academy Average State Average Academy % Higher English 25.4 20.5 24.2% Math 23.2 20.8 11.8% Reading 26.3 20.9 25.9% Science 23.4 20.7 13.2% Composite 24.7 20.8 18.7% ACT COLLEGE READINESS* SCORES, FIVE-YEAR AVERAGE Section % Academy Students % State Students Academy % Higher English Composition 91.4% 63.6% 43.7% College Algebra 65.4% 41.8% 56.5% College Social Science 80.6% 42.6% 89.2% College Biology 57% 36.4% 56.6% Composite 47.6% 27% 76.3% Spring Jazz Concert at the Jazz Showcase, 2016 *The ACT’s “College Readiness” statistic predicts the likelihood of a student earning an ‘A’ or a ‘B’ in a particular college course.

COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES 2010-2017 AMDA College and Conservatory of the Dominican University of California University of Mary Washington Saint Mary’s College Performing Arts Drake University Maryland Institute College of Art Saint Xavier University American Academy of Dramatic Arts Drew University Marymount Manhattan College Sam Houston State University The American Musical and Dramatic Drexel University Massachusetts College of Art and Design San Francisco Art Institute Academy College of DuPage University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth University of San Francisco The American University of Paris Earlham College McGill University Santa Fe University of Art and Design Antioch College Eastman School of Music Mercyhurst University Sarah Lawrence College Arizona State University Eckerd College Miami University, Oxford Savannah College of Art and Design The University of Arizona Edinburgh College of Art University of Miami School of the Art Institute of Chicago Augustana College Elmhurst College University of Michigan School of the Museum of Fine Arts Baldwin Wallace University Elon University Middleburg College School of Visual Arts Ball State University Emerson College Millikin University Shenandoah University Bard College Emory University Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Skidmore College Barnard College University of Essex Minneapolis College of Art and Design University of South Carolina Belmont University Eugene Lang College The New School for University of Minnesota University of South Florida, Tampa Beloit College Liberal Arts University of Missouri, Columbia University of Southern California Bennington College University of Evansville University of Missouri, Kansas City Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Berklee College of Music Evergreen State University Montana State University, Bozeman Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Biola University Florida State University The University of Montana, Missoula Southern Methodist Boston Conservatory Fordham University Moody Bible Institute Spelman College Boston University Friends University Muhlenberg College University Springfield College Bowling Green State University George Mason University New England Conservatory of Music Suffolk University Bradley University Goucher College The New School for Jazz and Contemporary SUNY-Purchase College, State University Brooks Institute of Photography Grand Valley State University Music of New York Burlington College Green Mountain College The New School Syracuse University Butler University Grinnell College New York University The Ohio State University California College of the Arts (Oakland) Guildford School of Acting University of North Carolina School of the The Theatre School California Institute of the Arts Guilford College Arts Triton College California State University, Long Beach Hampshire College North Central College Tulane University University of California, Berkeley University of Hartford North Park University University of the Arts London University of California, Los Angeles Harry S. Truman Community College of University of North Texas The University of the Arts University of California, San Diego Chicago Northeastern Illinois University Ursinus College CAP21 Performing Arts Conservatory Hawaii Pacific University University of Northern Colorado University of Utah Carnegie Mellon University University of Hawaii at Manoa Northern Illinois University Vassar College Central Saint Martins College of Art & Hofstra University Virginia Commonwealth University Design Howard University Oberlin College and Conservatory Viterbo University Centre College University of Illinois at Chicago University of Oklahoma Wagner College Champlain College University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Oklahoma City University University of Washington Chapman University Illinois State University Ontario College of Art & Design Washington University, St. Louis Chicago College of Performing Arts at Illinois Wesleyan University Otterbein University Wayne State Indiana University at Bloomington Pace University, New York City University Webster The University of Iowa Pace University, Westchester Campus University Wesleyan Chicago State University Ithaca College Parsons The New School for Design University Western Illinois University University of Cincinnati College Johns Hopkins University Peabody Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Western Michigan University Conservatory of Music Conservatory of Music Pennsylvania State University, University University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Cleveland Institute of Music The Juilliard School Park University of Wisconsin, Madison Coe College Juniata College Pepperdine University University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee College for Creative Studies Kansas City Art Institute Point Park University The College of Wooster University of Colorado at Boulder University of Kansas Pomona College Colorado College University of Kentucky Pratt Institute Colorado State University Kenyon College Prescott College Columbia College Chicago Knox College University of Redlands Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec) Lake Forest College Reed College Concordia University (IL) Lawrence University Rhode Island School of Design The Conservatory of Music Lewis University Ripon College The Cooper Union for the Advancement of The Liverpool Institute for the Performing Rochester Institute of Technology Science & Art Arts University of Rochester Cornell College London Contemporary Dance School Rockford University Cornish College of the Arts University of Louisiana, Lafayette Roehampton University (UK) Dean College Loyola Marymount University Roosevelt University University of Denver Loyola University Chicago Rose Bruford College DePaul University Manhattan School of Music Rutgers University-New Brunswick Dominican University Marquette University Saint John’s University 1010 W. 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