High School of the Performing Arts

     This school was a public alternative school established in 1947 and located at 120 West 46th Street in the borough of Manhattan New York City, from 1948 to 1984.

 In 1961, the school was merged with another alternative arts school, the High School of Music and Art.  Each school retained its own campus.Both student bodies  eventually moved into a shared building named the Fiorella H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing and Performing Arts at 100 Amsterdam Ave. New York, N.Y