Orange County School of the Arts California Department of Education

Public lease school in Santa Ana, California, United States

Orange Canton School of the Arts
Address
1010 N. Master Street Santa Ana , California 92701 United States
Coordinates	33°45′14″North 117°52′05″W  /  33.753864°N 117.86798°W  / 33.753864; -117.86798
Data
Type	Public lease school
Motto	We Are OCSA
Established	1987
Founder	Dr. Ralph Opacic
Schoolhouse district	Governed past the Orangish County Board of Teaching
Dean	Becca Freeland (Student Services) Michael Ciecek (Principal) Sally Lopez (Instruction) Maria Lazarova (Arts)
Executive Managing director	Teren Shaffer
Kinesthesia	100
Grades	vii–12
Enrollment	2,200
Campus	Urban
Color(s)	yellow, orange, red, regal, blueish
Newspaper	Development
Yearbook	Dreamscape
Website	www.ocsarts.internet

Orangish County School of the Arts (OCSA, OH-shə),^[a] is a 7th–12th grade public lease school located in downtown Santa Ana, California. The school caters to center and high school students with talents in the performing, visual, literary arts, culinary arts and more. The educational programme prepares students for higher education institutions or employment in the professional arts manufacture. Both the bookish and arts program accept prompted recognition in the United states of america News' "Best Loftier Schools" program.^[1] In 2012 the school changed its proper name from "Orangish Canton Loftier School of the Arts" (OCHSA) to "Orange County School of the Arts".

History [edit]

Originally, this arts program began in 1983 as Los Al Players, a summer musical theatre military camp for ages 4 – xvi founded by Terry Bigelow, Jean Parks, and Ralph Opacic in Los Alamitos, CA. Los Al Players grew into the Orange County Loftier School of the Arts (OCHSA) in 1987 and reorganized every bit a public lease school on April 20, 2000. During that time the school was relocated from its chief facility at Los Alamitos High School to the Santa Ana Unified School Commune. OCSA is a tuition-complimentary, donation-dependent public charter school governed by a board of trustees representing parents, the customs, educators and the Santa Ana Unified School District.

The school is supported past The Orange County School of the Arts Foundation which is a non-turn a profit organization for the financial support of the school'southward tuition-free artistic programs likewise equally its ongoing expansion plans. The Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) not-profit corporation governed past a volunteer lath of directors.

In the summer of 2012, the proper noun of the school was inverse from OCHSA (Orange Canton High Schoolhouse of the Arts) to OCSA (Orange County Schoolhouse of the Arts). This was done to account for the grades seven-8 that are too in attendance at the school.

Academics [edit]

The Orange County School of the Arts students attend standard academic courses under a block schedule organization with three academic classes per day alternating each 24-hour interval for a total of six classes. Honors classes are offered as well every bit many Advanced Placement classes. OCSA also has a selection of electives including Acting, Ceramics, Improv, Graphic Design, Zoology, Vocal Ensemble, Beginner Pianoforte, Journalism, and Photography.

OCSA's 2012 Academic Performance Index (API) score of 908 ranked the school as one of the height five ranked high schools in Orange County and in the top 10 percent in California.

OCSA was named a Bluish Ribbon School in 2006 by the U.S. Section of Education. OCSA was ane of 250 Blue Ribbon schools recognized nationwide in 2006 among 35 schools in the State of California and five public schools in Orange County. OCSA was too named a California Distinguished Schoolhouse.

In 2017, 99% of OCSA alumni continued on to college,^[2] with 72% going on to a iv-twelvemonth university, 22% going to a ii-year university with plans to transfer to a 4-year university and 6% are going directly into the workforce. Students must maintain a minimum ii.0 GPA to go along participating in their artistic studies.

Art Attack Live [edit]

Art Assail Live set 2004–2005

The "Art Attack Live" is OCSA'south daily live television broadcast of the day's announcements. The prove began broadcasting by a group of 4 students from the Movie and Television solarium in September 2003. Broadcast to every boob tube in the school, the curt broadcast keeps students up to appointment on schoolhouse events and promotes activities.

Coiffure members consist of students from the school'southward Film and Television solarium, and diverse students from other conservatories. The show is broadcast from one of OCSA's two alive television production studios in the technology building. Students at the school are given the opportunity to audition to become hosts of the prove or gain a crew internship. This is too written by the attending students and peers tin employ to be a part of these broadcasts by hosting them with designated themes.

Arts [edit]

Afterward 2:xv p.m., Monday through Thursday, the school focuses on arts pedagogy which is divided into 16 conservatories: Product and Design, International Dance (was Ballet Folklórico), Classical and Contemporary Dance, Commercial Trip the light fantastic toe, Artistic Writing, Picture and Telly, Integrated Arts, Instrumental Music (divided into Strings and Orchestra, Piano, Wind Studies, and Jazz), Popular Music, Musical Theater, Acting, Classical Vocalisation (was Opera), Visual Arts, Culinary Arts and Hospitality, Digital Media, and Arts and Enterprise (New to the 2022-23 school year).

James P. Blaylock, a fantasy author, was Director of the Creative Writing Department at OCSA. The manager is currently Josh Forest. The department'southward Author in Residence is the fantasy author Tim Powers. The Instrumental Music Department holds many concerts throughout the twelvemonth and performed at Carnegie Hall in New York Metropolis in jump of 2006. The schoolhouse's Symphony Orchestra, directed by Chris Russell, performed in the Sydney Opera House in the summertime of 2008. The Production and Pattern Conservatory at OCSA designs the costumes, lighting, sound, makeup and sets for over 125 school performances each year. They refer to their conservatory manager equally "Captain" because his proper name is Kevin Cook.

OCSA's largest outcome is the annual Season Finale, which takes identify in early June at the Segerstrom Eye for the Arts. The Finale recognizes notable graduating seniors, presents data almost each solarium, and includes theatrical presentations and instrumental performances, oftentimes showcasing pieces from the top performances of that year. OCSA'southward Gala fundraiser is the other large event and is held in coastal Orange County towards the end of March. The Gala is a themed fundraising event in which OCSA students from various conservatories perform. The issue takes place at a hotel ballroom converted into a fully functioning theater by students of the Product and Blueprint program.

Art Attack Live set redecorated to fit the campus' western-themed spirit week.

Campus [edit]

OCSA'due south campus consists of a 7-story office tower, which was formerly a bank and four surrounding buildings, the Addendum, the Tech Building, Symphony Hall, the Visual Arts Center, The Margaret A. Webb Theater, and the new Dance Music Science middle. The chief tower's bank vault is nonetheless in utilize as a teacher work area and occasionally as an octagonal theater.

Symphony Hall's main phase prepare for Awards Night 2005

OCSA has ii on-campus venues. Symphony Hall is a theater, which holds most of the schoolhouse's medium to larger performances and was originally a historic Church of Christian Science, (built in 1922) before being converted to a theater. The hall contains a theater, a side rehearsal room, separate do rooms for instrumental musicians, a basement and library for the creative writers, a front end of house audio berth with a Behringer X32 digital audio console, and a balustrade overlooking the auditorium for the Product and Design students. This balustrade houses an ETC lighting booth using the ION console and two Source Iv followspots. Communication throughout the theatre is done with a Clear-Com organization. The former on-campus venue, the Black Box Theatre, was painted and floored entirely white, serving as a dance room until fall 2015, where the black box theatre returned to OCSA and has been renamed the Studio Theatre. It also is used every bit a classroom for Production & Design students to learn lighting. The lighting is controlled by an ETC Element console.

In addition to Symphony Hall, OCSA has some other functioning venue, The Margaret A. Webb Center for the Arts, located at 801 N. Main St. Formally known as The O.C. Pavilion, OCSA purchased the venue in 2010. The building contains a 500-seat theater, a cabaret/ jazz lounge with a pocket-size stage in the basement, and an event center higher up the theater. In the primary theatre, all conservatories are allowed to use the space for performances. Production & Blueprint students assistance the performances. They run the lighting organisation, also using the ETC ION console. In that location are iii followspots and a video control booth in addition to the lighting section. There is also a forepart of house sound berth with a Yamaha CL5 and a dedicated audio playback calculator, which is an iMac running QLab. On stage there is a large phase lift that is used mostly for transporting large objects to and from the basement. Above the stage hangs 4 lighting electrics, and other battens for hanging drapery or scenery. Communication is as well run with a Clear-Com system. In the event center, an ETC ColorSource console runs ColorSource pars for the stage area. There is likewise a Behringer X32 digital sound console for sound.

The single-story "engineering science building" houses the bulk of the Film and Television conservatory, the computer graphics portion of the Visual Arts section and a few administrative offices. At that place are two fully equipped studios one primarily for live tv set production and the other for film work. There is also a computer lab and a number of individual video editing rooms. The campus' daily student-run news television programme Art Set on Alive is broadcast from the idiot box studio and adjacent control room.

Situated between the main campus and the technology building is a five-story ceramic tower covered in tiles called the "totem pole". It serves equally a gathering place for students during suspension times, likewise as a loading and unloading zone.

The "Annex" is a combination of two white windowless buildings. The Annex is home to many trip the light fantastic toe and vocal rooms and contains the Production and Design workshop where OCSA's production sets are constructed and painted. Since the 2010- 2011 school year, it has been the home to the majority of the 7th and 8th graders' academic classes.

In August 2015, OCSA opened The Marybelle Musco Dance Center, The Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family unit Music Center, and The Argyros Science Eye (DMS) edifice. The lx,000 square-human foot building includes 8 science labs, 14 trip the light fantastic studios, 3 instrumental music and choir rehearsal rooms, 16 music exercise rooms, and dressing rooms. A large courtyard surface area with fake grass is a spot where students can relax during non instructional times.

In October 2021, OCSA opened a pocket-size collection of blue shipping containers. The expanse consists of several v'x30' containers that were subsequently painted night blue. The containers are located in the parking lot outside of the tower.

Notable students and alumni [edit]

• Kit Armstrong – classical pianist^[3]
• Scott Aukerman – writer / comedian^[4]
• Bae Sung-yeon – vocalist and member of Pristin
• Dante Basco – histrion^[v]
• Dion Basco – actor
• Drake Bell – thespian / musician^[6]
• Ashley Benson – actress
• Stephanie J. Block – Broadway / Tony Winner 2018-2019^[vii]
• Kara Crane – actress^[eight]
• Republic of chad Doreck – actor^[9]
• Susan Egan – actress (also former OCSA artistic director)^[10]
• Michael Fishman – actor^[11]
• Lauren German language – actress^[12]
• Vanessa Hudgens – actress / singer (attended OCSA seventh grade but)^[13]
• Dinah Jane − singer & fellow member of Fifth Harmony^[14]
• Allison Mack – sometime actress, currently imprisoned for crimes related to the sex activity trafficking cult NXIVM^{[xv] [xvi]}
• Taryn Manning – actress^[17]
• Joe and Luke McGarry - twin musicians / graphic artists^[18]
• Grace McLean -- Actress/Vocalizer^{[19] [20]}
• Lindsay Mendez – Extra / Tony Laurels Winner 2017-2018
• Emma Milani - Actress ^[21]
• Matthew Morrison – histrion / vocaliser / dancer^{[22] [23]}
• Pedro Pascal – actor^[24]
• Monique Powell – vocalist^[25]
• Krysta Rodriguez – actress (also sometime OCSA artistic director)^{[26] [27]}
• Matthew Shaffer – histrion / dancer
• Columbus Short – histrion / choreographer^[28]
• Justice Smith — player^[29]
• Nikki SooHoo – actress^[30]
• People's republic of china Soul – vocalizer / songwriter^[31]
• Nicholas Urie – composer^[32]
• Anneliese van der Pol – extra^[33]

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

• Orange County High School of the Arts
• California Department of Education
• Lease Schools Evolution Middle's Profiles Project
• GreatSchools.net
• A miracle? Orange County High School of the Arts turns 25 from the Orange Canton Annals

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