Metropolitan Arts Institute

About

Performing Arts | Visual Arts | Academics

Story

Metro Arts is an independent, chartered college prep arts school located in downtown Phoenix AZ. Providing a balanced program of college preparatory academics and arts courses for students in grades 7-12, Metro emphasizes excellence, authenticity, integrity, and tolerance. A highly creative and intellectually exciting environment, Metro is a place with a strong community spirit and a tradition of excellence. Metro Arts received a grade of A in 2012 from the Arizona Department of Education.

Mission

The Metropolitan Arts Institute prepares students for college and instills a lifetime value of the creative process. Metro focuses on developing academic and artistic excellence along with social-emotional authenticity in each student. We are dedicated to providing students who demonstrate interest and talent in the arts, with the opportunity to pursue a rigorous and culturally diverse liberal arts academic program that prepares them for life and higher education.

Metro Arts utilizes a curriculum and teaching process which encourages students to develop cognitive connections between academic subjects and the arts. This model recognizes unique student learning styles. The arts and the creative process assist in cognitive development and increase academic performance and social-emotional development. The success of this model is measured through multiple assessment activities such as portfolios, performances, projects and testing.

Metro Arts is committed to hiring only qualified instructors and professional artists. All Metro Arts faculty must demonstrate the professional credentials and/or experience within their field of expertise which makes them highly qualified according to the federal standards of the No Child Left Behind Act.