Performing Arts was located in Midtown Manhattan on West 46th Street. Prior to the building's completion in 1985, Music & Art – colloquially known as "The Castle on the Hill" – was located in Manhattan at Convent Avenue and 135th Street in what has since become part of City College of New York's South Campus the building is home to A. The Board of education honored Mayor LaGuardia posthumously by naming the new building after him. In 1984, the schools moved to a new concrete building, designed by Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano and adjacent to Lincoln Center. The schools merged on paper in 1961 and were to be combined in one building. In 1948, a similar institution – the High School of Performing Arts – was created in an effort to harness students' talents in dance. He wanted to establish a public school in which students could hone their talents in music, art and the performing arts. The High School of Music & Art was founded by Mayor Fiorello H. The school in 2019–2020 had 3,011 students and 164 staff members, with a teacher–student ratio of 1:20. The school is the only one of New York City's nine specialized high schools to receive special funding from the New York State Legislature through the Hecht-Calandra Act, as well as the only specialized high school that does not use the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test ( SHSAT) as admissions criteria. The school has a dual mission of arts and academics, preparing students for a career in the arts or conservatory study as well as a pursuit of higher education. Located at 100 Amsterdam Avenue between West 64th and 65th Streets, the school is operated by the New York City Department of Education, and resulted from the merger of the High School of Music & Art and the School of Performing Arts. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, often referred to simply as LaGuardia, is a public high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located near Lincoln Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City.
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