NOCCA
| New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) | |
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2800 Chartres St New Orleans, Louisiana 70117 United States |
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| School type | Public-Direct State Run High School |
| Established | 1973 |
| Head of school | Kyle Wedberg, President|CEO |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Website | The NOCCA Institute |
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, or NOCCA, is the public performing and visual arts high school for the State of Louisiana. Opened in 1973 as a professional arts training center for secondary school-age children. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, NOCCA provides intensive instruction in culinary arts, creative writing, dance, media arts, music (classical, jazz, vocal), theatre arts (drama, musical theatre, theatre design) and visual arts, while demanding simultaneous academic excellence.
NOCCA was founded by a diverse coalition of artists, educators, business leaders, and community activists who saw the need for an institution devoted to our region’s burgeoning young talent. The program is tuition-free to all Louisiana students who meet audition requirements. Students from over 100 public, private, parochial and home schools attend in the afternoon or late-day as well as Academic Studio students, who attend NOCCA for the full day.
In 2000, NOCCA moved to a newly built campus located in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood. Prior to that, NOCCA was housed for many years in an old elementary school building located on Perrier Street in Uptown New Orleans.
NOCCA’s track record over the past 40 years speaks for itself: every year a remarkable 95-98% of NOCCA graduates go on to college and conservatory programs across the country. Furthermore, approximately 80% of NOCCA students receive scholarships to pursue such higher education. The key to NOCCA’s success is the ethic of discipline and responsibility it instills in students, which prepares them for productive adult lives.
Academic Studio students, accepted by a successful arts audition, learn through problem-solving and project-based learning. Students graduate from NOCCA receiving a TOPS University Diploma.
Many world-class artists have graduated from NOCCA, including Harry Connick, Jr., Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, the Marsalis brothers, Trombone Shorty, Jonathan Batiste, Gustave Blache III, Anthony Mackie, Wendell Pierce, Nicole Cooley, Poppy Tooker, Terence Blanchard, Gary Solomon, Jr., Terrance Osborne, , Wanda Boudreaux, Irving Mayfield Jr., Bryan Hymel, and DJ hollygrove.
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