Lincoln Park to Host First Pittsburgh Enrollment Seminar
Throughout its 14-year history, Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School has always drawn students from well outside its home base of Beaver County.
But in 2020, the school will take its message straight to those students. For the first time, Lincoln Park will hold an enrollment seminar off-campus.
Lincoln Park will hold its first off-site enrollment seminar at Pittsburgh’s Hyatt Place North Shore from 6 to 8 p.m. on Jan. 29. It will take place in Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3.
The free seminar is for students from the Pittsburgh area who are entering grades 7-12, and their families. They can speak with members of Lincoln Park’s arts departments, and learn more about the school and its mission.
Guests can visit the Pittsburgh seminar at any time between 6 and 8 p.m. They’ll be able to ask questions about the school’s arts departments, academic classes, the transportation schedule, and other details about Lincoln Park.
“It’s more of an informal setting: answer questions, ask one-on-one, versus more formal settings that we might have at enrollment seminars,” Principal Lindsay Rodgers told The SIREN, Lincoln Park’s school newspaper.
Lincoln Park will be hosting two enrollment seminars in February. One is for prospective middle schoolers on Feb. 5, and one is for prospective high schoolers on Feb. 12. So people who attend the Pittsburgh seminar will also have a chance to visit an enrollment seminar at Lincoln Park, Rodgers added.
Lincoln Park is home to seven different arts departments, and enrolls students from more than 80 school districts across Western Pennsylvania. It is a tuition-free public charter school. Housed in a professional performing arts center, it is open to any student residing in Pennsylvania. Its website is lppacs.org.
Despite charter schools facing public opposition from Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, Lincoln Park’s enrollment has continued to grow each year. The school is making plans to expand its facility with the addition of new classrooms and studio space.
That growth is proof that outreach to the Pittsburgh area is well-timed, said Dan LeRoy, the school’s director of Writing and Publishing.
“We always want to take our message straight to the public,” he said. “We’ve believed since Day One that when people learn all that Lincoln Park has to offer, and what a special school it is, they’ll be interested.”
