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Harrison School for the Arts

County: Polk County
Number of Students: 418

Students served:

Harrison School for the Arts offers an enriched arts education for students with a demonstrat ­ ed talent in music, drama, dance or the visual arts. The program develops both the academic and artistic skills of students interested in ar ­ tistic careers as well as an appreciation of the arts for those who may choose other fields.

Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools as Harrison School for the Arts, the school is located in Lakeland, Florida. Harrison is accredited as a Special Purpose School and was created in 1990 in partnership with the Polk Museum of Art, the City of Lakeland, and Florida Southern Col­lege. Students are dually enrolled in their co-curricular academic classes in a regular high school setting at Lakeland Senior High School, which is adjacent to the Harrison campus. Stu­dents are afforded the benefits of a wide range of both standard and honors courses, with op­portunities for advanced placement credit in visual and performing arts academics as well as in traditional academic classes. Harrison draws students from the entire demographic area of Polk County.

For more school information, please visit: www.harrisonarts.com.

The Arts at Harrison School for the Arts

Visual Arts
Orchestra
Chorus
Musical Theatre
Theatre/Theatre Tech
Piano
Dance

Our Arts Teaching Team includes:

Visual Arts: 3 teachers
Orchestra: 2 teachers
Chorus: 2 teachers
Musical Theatre: 3 teachers
Theatre/Theatre Tech: 2 teachers
Piano: 1 teacher
Dance: 2 teachers

Our Schedule:

Click here for schedule. (PDF)

A Visit to Our School:

Harrison offers a unique scheduling model in that students are “dually-enrolled” with another high school. This can provide visitors with a distinct perspective of the cooperative facilitation necessary to make programs like this work.

Our Special Arts Programs:

The focus on the processes of artistic creation allows Harrison to stand out as an arts-specific school. The instructional objectives and the student expectations are aligned such that students learn about their respective artistic crafts in a controlled and academic setting. This teaches them about the entire process of creating art, not just about the end product itself. By doing this, Harrison graduates are prepared for post-secondary educational opportunities. These opportunities may be pursuing a bachelor’s degree in an artistic field or in any other academic area. In either case, the four-year artistic curriculum at Harrison does an exceptional job of focusing instruction on the entire process of making art.

ACE/FAAE | Phone: 407-488-8868
ACE/FAAE is a member of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network and is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of Education, Department of State/Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida Arts Council: National Endowment for the Arts; and Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network.
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