The Theatre Arts Production Company School (TAPCo) is a New York City Public School serving grades 6-12.  We are a learner-centered, performance-based school of choice. TAPCo educates and challenges students to achieve their highest academic, creative, economic and world citizen potential. As a small school, we provide a safe and personalized environment to a multi-cultural community.

High academic achievement is central to TAPCo. We value research-based innovation in instructional delivery. The mainstream pedagogical embrace of Gardner's multiple intelligence theory supports our use of the arts to provide deep differentiated instruction. All theatre arts classes are integrated with our core academic curriculum. We provide opportunities for students to train in the arts and prepare them for college and career. We also follow a "Schoolwide Enrichment Model" and utilize the "Life Skills Crisis Intervention" program to build community and develop productive relationships.

Our students learn to see and perceive the world in new ways because we value academic, artistic and humanistic development. TAPCo students learn to acknowledge and appreciate the unique and the common in themselves and others in that diversity and the learning needs of all students are central to our mission. At TAPCo, all student work is viewed through an inclusive celebratory lens. Students are provided with rich opportunities to learn and develop themselves and with others through cultural and individual forms of art.

Middle/High school students today were born from the 1990s upward when multimedia communication began its rise. Students often interpret and make meaning through multiple forms of expression via computers. Our teachers creatively use technology in the classroom as an instructional tool. We cultivate student initiative and imagination in all subjects by making learning fun and engaging. Students are provided individualized ways to demonstrate content and skill mastery based on their particular blend of learning styles and artistic interests as a critical adjunct to standardized testing.

How do we best prepare students for the future in the face of rapid technological advancement and an uncertain economy? The natural place of the arts in the lives of young people provides the opportunity for novel and powerful educational responses. At TAPCo, we use established and new approaches to teach students what they need to know in order to flourish as adaptable, productive and responsible citizens.

The Class of 2009, our first graduating high school class, celebrated graduation at The Apollo Theatre on June 28, 2009.  They had a college acceptance rate of 96% to universities and colleges including Tulane University, Union College, Manhattan and Mt St Vincent Colleges, CW Post, Long Island University, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY Purchase and CUNY at Hunter, and City Colleges.

The Class of 2010 Graduation ceremonies were held at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. They had a college acceptance rate of 100%. College acceptances included $85,000 scholarships to Syracuse, New York, and Northeastern University.

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