Public Academy for Performing Arts

The Public academy for Perfoaming Arts or PAPA, is an amazing school. If your child is interested in the performing arts or is allready in the performing arts PAPA is the perfect school for him/her. After getting our new princible (Doreen Whin) our school has been more organized and has done things our school is very proud to say we have done. We have made feature length movies with our film department and every year we have a spring dance show at the national Hispanic Coltural Center showing our amazing dancers talents. Our students have done things in the perfroming arts that only kids at PAPA have the oppertunity to do. If you want your child to succeed academically and in the performing arts PAPA is the perfect place for them.

This school is amazing, but the truth is that this is a school for kids who really love the performing arts. This school will give your child the tools needed to have a successful career in the performing arts. The new principal (Doreen Winn) at PAPA is taking the school to new heights and soon PAPA will be a premier school in New Mexico.

The school is very unorganized and shares very little information with parents. The school makes changes and the way you find about them is when the new occurances are happening. They lost many students at the beginning of the year due to the organizational problems and new leadership. This could have been the premier school for Albuquerque, but it lacks so many things, mostly leadership to ever attain that status.
--Submitted by a parent

This is a school every parent dreams about for their child. My child is safe and is excelling in every subject! The staff and principal are an example all schools should follow! I am thrilled and feel blessed to have my child attend this school! Dee S
--Submitted by a parent

I am a 6th grader at PAPA. I really like it. The teachers are nice and it is really exciting and interesting.
--Submitted by a student

PAPA is a unique school built on supporting performers and their hectic schedules. If you're not serious about the arts, this school isn't for you. I've been following PAPA's development since it began 5 years ago. Today, it is a very different place from even two years ago. Miraculously, the PAPA board was able to enlist the services of Katy Harvey as principal. Principal Harvey is a veteran of the academic industry with exceptional skills as an administrator. Since her arrival, PAPA is living up to its potential. The staff is now made up of dynamic individuals dedicated to their students, the arts, and their own artistic passions. With her wise guidance, PAPA begins a new chapter.
--Submitted by Su Hudson, a teacher

The staff is unorganized, and rude most of the time. The kids are very different, and some have some real issues to deal with. I would not recommend this school unless your child is dedicated to their electives that are not offered at regular aps schools.
--Submitted by a parent

I've been going to PAPA since its first year, and I'm a senior now. While it's true that the school used to be terribly unorganized and unprofessional, it's got a new, excellent principal, and is really getting better all the time. I've stuck it out these last five years, and I've been rewarded with a personalized education and very flexible staff. I cannot vouch for the middle school, because it's changed so much since I was in it. Special ed services are very much lacking, due to vast ineptitude on the parts of individual coordinators. This is something upon which the school will definitely need to improve. Despite several years of incompetence at the helm, I believe the school to be a very good place to learn, and an excellent social climate for the sorts of weird kids who have it so hard at other schools. Lastly, PAPA met/exceeded Adequate Yearly Progress last
--Submitted by Rachel Langer, a student

Very clueless as to how to run a school, very unorganized, but a safe school none-the-less. teachers are normally pretty good. Not a lot of after school activites, but a lot of during school electives.
--Submitted by Alyx Weller, a former student