General description

The Idyllwild Arts Academy is the country’s premier and internationally-acclaimed residential arts high school (9th-12th; PG) (September through May) which provides pre-professional training in the arts and a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum to a diverse student body of gifted young artists. Idyllwild Arts Academy’s 300 students hail from more than 30 countries and pursue artistic excellence in Music, Theatre, Dance, Visual Art, Creative Writing, Film & Digital Media, InterArts, and Fashion Design. Graduates of Idyllwild Arts Academy currently excel in every professional field of the arts including Broadway theatre, primetime television, classical and jazz music, motion pictures, graphic design, photography and more.

Why choose Idyllwild Arts Academy

Brown, Cornell, Juilliard, Northwestern, NYU, Rhode Island School of Design, Swarthmore, Tufts, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and more–why have these elite colleges accepted 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 graduates from Idyllwild Arts Academy? Because Idyllwild Arts’ innovative and challenging double curriculum of arts and academics produces creative thinkers who can adapt to any college environment (and thrive in any professional environment!). And because colleges care about geographic diversity. As education expert Dave Bergman notes, “colleges will almost always favor the applicant coming from a more distant or exotic locale” because she “brings a unique background and perspective to campus.”