San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts

San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) was founded in 1978 with the leadership of Florence Johnson, founding principal, and Ole Kittleson (project resource teacher), and it began as a school within the campus of Roosevelt Middle School. After a court order, SCPA, one of the initial magnet schools for voluntary San Diego Unified School District integration, held its first classes. SCPA began operations with one administrator, 17 teachers, and one counselor. The inaugural student body was made up of 180 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. An additional 46 seventh-graders joined the school during the spring semester. The 8th grade was added the subsequent year, and this class was the first SCPA graduating class. In 1982, SCPA moved to a new venue, the former Mabel E. O'Farrell site in Southeast San Diego, and was known as the O'Farrell School of Creative and Performing Arts. The San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts is a college-preparatory institution specializing in the arts for high-achieving learners from the sixth through twelfth grade. Students at SCPA are ambitious and engaged and can take advantage of the school's excellent arts education, encouragement, guidance. They also need to juggle the academic and artistic demands of a seven-hour day. Students will be expected to complete a college-preparatory curriculum and an arts course to graduate from SCPA. Learners will need to show that they are prepared for conservatory research in the arts and can reason critically from a perspective sufficiently advanced to engage them in the world's creative industries.

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