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Regional Center For Arts Offers Early Admissions
RCA will offer the chance for students to learn if they are accepted earlier than usual.
October 25 2019
Arts high school offers early admissions
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The Regional Center for the Arts, a part-time arts magnet high school located in Trumbull, is offering special early-decision admissions for the first time. Students wanting to attend in the 2020-21 school year can audition in January and learn their enrollment status that month instead of waiting for the regular admissions in the spring.
Applications are now available at www.ces.k12.ct.us/rca for students who will be in grades 9-12 next school year. Placement auditions will be Jan. 11 from 10 a.m. until noon. Regular admission auditions will be March 14 and 21.
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Students who earn a spot attend their regular high schools in the morning and then are bused to RCA, located at 23 Oakview Drive in Trumbull, in the afternoons Monday through Thursday for classes taught by a faculty of experienced performers and technical arts specialists. The programs of emphasis are Creative Video, Dance, Music, Musical Theater, and Theatre. Public performances in the school’s two theaters and auditions provide an invaluable experience throughout the year.
Students earn the equivalent of two elective courses per year and grades are sent to their home high school each quarter.
More than 240 students from Fairfield County and other surrounding school districts attend RCA currently. It is a public school of choice for families in Bridgeport, Darien, Easton/Region #9, Fairfield, Greenwich, Monroe, New Canaan, Norwalk, Redding, Ridgefield, Shelton, Stamford, Stratford, Trumbull, Weston, Westport, and Wilton. The student body reflects the racial, ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of Greater Bridgeport.
RCA is operated by Cooperative Educational Services, a Trumbull-based agency that is one of the state’s six Regional Educational Service Centers created by the legislature to provide supports and services to public school districts in their respective regions.
This press release was produced by the Regional Center for the Arts. The views expressed here are the author’s own.
