Created in 1996, the Booker Middle School Visual & Performing Arts program was established to offer an enriched opportunity for gifted and talented students. This program focuses on individualized instruction through an intensive curriculum, which will cultivate the student's skill and knowledge in their chosen discipline.
The mission of the program is "to identify highly interested and talented students and provide them with an enriched, culturally diverse, technology-infused arts education. Our program participants will use the arts to enhance their core academic performance. VPA students will perform their artistic discipline in and outside of the school setting. Upon leaving the program in the eighth grade, VPA students will be proficient on all assessments and be prepared to participate in high school level arts courses. The overarching goal of the program is to create lifelong consumers and producers of the arts."
The mission of the program is "to identify highly interested and talented students and provide them with an enriched, culturally diverse, technology-infused arts education. Our program participants will use the arts to enhance their core academic performance. VPA students will perform their artistic discipline in and outside of the school setting. Upon leaving the program in the eighth grade, VPA students will be proficient on all assessments and be prepared to participate in high school level arts courses. The overarching goal of the program is to create lifelong consumers and producers of the arts."