Pittsburgh Capa 6-12

A Creative and Performing Arts Magnet

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Remote learning will continue at Pittsburgh CAPA until Friday, January 6, 2023.

Due to spacing and scheduling challenges, as well as additional cleaning measures following a unit ventilator coil break, remote learning will continue at Pittsburgh CAPA until Friday, January 6, 2023.

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Remote Learning Day on Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Due to a unit ventilator coil break in the fourth-floor library last week, Pittsburgh CAPA will have a Remote Learning Day on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Students will participate in live synchronous learning and instruction remotely on Microsoft Teams.

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News Release: Pittsburgh Public Schools Announces Start of Warning Period of School Bus Safety Program to Protect Students

PITTSBURGH, PA, May 16, 2023 – Pittsburgh Public Schools is announcing the start of the warning period of its school bus stop-arm camera program to protect students from the pervasive issue of motorists illegally passing a stopped school bus. The warning period will begin Wednesday, May 17, and run until the program officially goes live July 3, following a robust public awareness campaign launched last August.

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Pittsburgh Public Schools appoints Director of Violence Prevention to quell student violence

PITTSBURGH — Jason Rivers is taking the helm as the new Director of Narrative Transformation, Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention for Pittsburgh Public Schools. It is a newly created position designated to address a culture of escalating violence among students in and outside of school buildings across the city.

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PPS’s first violence prevention director Jason Rivers wants to interrogate origins of violence

On today’s episode of The Confluence: Pittsburgh Public Schools has hired Jason Rivers as the district’s inaugural director of narrative transformation, conflict resolution and violence prevention. Rivers joins us to explain what kind of programming can be enacted to support violence prevention.

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Address 111 9th St, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
ADA Accessible Yes
Phone (412) 529-6101
Uniform No
School Colors Black and White
District 8
Students 845
FAX (412) 338-6143
Mascot N/A
Hours 7:25-3:00 High School. 8:05-3:27 Middle School

ABOUT OUR SCHOOL

Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 is a Creative and Performing Arts Magnet school located in the heart of Pittsburgh's downtown cultural district. In 2009, CAPA was awarded the Blue Ribbon as a school of Distinction by the Department of Education.

The mission of Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 is to provide every student in grades 6-12 with a comprehensive academic program rooted in a superior quality arts education experience that encourages excellence and success in their personal development as artists and cultural leaders. CAPA 6-12 offers a challenging and integrated curriculum that equally provides world-class preparation for college and university study, and conservatory level preparation for artistic careers.

The environment at CAPA 6-12 is enhanced by partnerships and collaborations with local and national cultural organizations and universities that provide opportunities in which to explore the relationships between school, family and work. In 2014, US News and World Report named CAPA in the Top 20 of Best High Schools in Pennsylvania.

Acceptance is based upon an off-site application and completion of a successful audition or presentation of an acceptable portfolio. Students may choose intensive artistic instruction in one of eight art forms: dance, instrumental music, literary arts, piano, production technology, theater, visual arts and vocal music. CAPA Audition Materials are available here.

CAPA 6-12 offers National Honor Society, Ski Club, CAPA Chronicle (Newspaper), Unicorn (Yearbook), Student Council, all-school musical, Master classes, Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science, Amnesty International, intramural sports, African American CAS Council, 6th-8th Grade Athletics (Co-ed Cross Country, Boys and Girls Soccer, Boys and Girls Basketball), and Junior National Honor Society. Students have won awards from the Carson Scholars Fund, National Scholastic Writing Contest, Gene Kelly Awards, Music in the Parks Festival, National Choral Competition, City Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theatre's Shakespeare Contest, National Scholastic Art and Writing Contest, PMEA, and Race to the Top Commencement Challenge.