The Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts (SLSPA) is a charter school, in partnership with the Salt Lake City School District, that opened Fall 2006. The purpose of SLSPA is to provide gifted young performers with highly specialized and rigorous training in the arts, while still maintaining a rigorous academic program. SLSPA seeks to instill in its students the life skills of creativity, confidence, collaboration, communication and leadership. We encourage self-expression, nurture self-esteem, and challenge the imagination. The school provides students with the opportunity to learn from the finest performers and educators in their fields, where the quality of the creative effort fosters confidence, joy, self-discipline, and a deep, abiding love of excellence and high achievement.

There is an overall desire within the school to see each and every one of our students unlock their gifts and talents and use them to the best of their ability. SLSPA offers a unique performing arts curriculum focused on the individual. The school nurtures, without exception, the values of individual accomplishment and independence. Since individual creativity is integral to the production of art, our faculty and staff work with students on an individualized, human level that stimulates intellectual, artistic, and technical originality. By providing such an environment, we strive to graduate people who can work independently and creatively. The programs of the school are designed for motivated students who desire the most from their efforts in the performing arts and in the classroom. We desire to create a positive learning and performing experience for all students, and to provide the knowledge and inspiration to take their art to the next level.