Walsh and City Council President Kim Janey, city and state officials, and members of BAA and the BAA Foundation, raised the final steel beam into place to complete the new building in a Topping Off Ceremony. The ground was broken July 1 for the construction of a new $125 million facility at 174 Ipswich Street, leading to the relocation of both Boston Arts Academy and the Boston Arts Academy Foundation. 2016īAA was a Silver Recognition Recipient from the Schools of Opportunity and won the Signature Enterprise Schools Award from the GRAMMY Foundation.

2015īAA was featured in Ken Robinson’s book, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution that’s Transforming Education. The STEAM Lab was opened to establish a maker space/artists’ studio/fabrication laboratory so students could explore the connections between the arts, science, and math, while incorporating new technology into their projects. 2013īAA was recognized as the Outstanding Arts School by the Arts School Network. 2009īAA won the National Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Award from the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education. 2005īAA launched its award-winning literacy intervention program, Summer Reading, which has since served over 400 BAA struggling readers and trained dozens of teachers, interns from local colleges and universities, and volunteers. BAA was established as a pilot school and the city’s first full inclusion high school – a place that admits students based solely on arts auditions without regard to prior academic, behavioral, or learning challenges. Boston Arts Academy was founded when a committed group of educators, parents, and public officials as well as the presidents of the member colleges of Boston’s ProArts Consortium recognized the need for a public arts high school in Boston.

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