Classroom Building
Classroom Building
New Mexico School for the Arts offers pre-professional and professional instruction in the performing and visual arts while providing a comprehensive, rigorous four-year academic program leading to a high school diploma. Our classroom building is located in the historic St. Francis Cathedral School in the heart of downtown Santa Fe at the corner of Alameda Street and Paseo de Peralta. From New Mexico School for the Arts, students can walk to Santa Fe’s finest museums, performing arts spaces, and cultural institutions to further their learning in the arts.
The New Mexico School for the Arts campus building was designed by John Gaw Meem, one of New Mexico’s most important architects known for the instrumental role he played in developing and popularizing the Pueblo Revival Style. The School was constructed in the 1930s and housed the St. Francis Cathedral School until 2006. Retrofitted in 2010 for New Mexico School for the Arts, our classroom building is rooted in history. New Mexico School for the Arts has maintained the John Gaw Meem building in its historic form, honoring the past while celebrating our state’s future by developing the creative potential of New Mexico’s artistically talented youth.
Residential Dormitories
New Mexico School for the Arts provides a Residential Program for students who live in areas of New Mexico further away than a reasonable daily commute. The dormitories provide safe and comfortable weekday living with transportation provided to and from the classroom building.
Residence Facility - Cartwright Hall
Once a student is admitted to New Mexico School for the Arts, he or she can apply to the Residential Program. Priority is given first to those students with a home distant enough from Santa Fe that it prohibits commuting to New Mexico School for the Arts. Dormitories will be closed on weekends and holidays, and all students will need to make travel arrangements to return home at these times.
Click here to view the 2010-2011 Residential Program Application.
Financial Assistance for the Residential Program
New Mexico School for the Arts is committed to making our education available to all qualified New Mexico students who are admitted to the school, regardless of geographic limitations or socio-economic background. To that end, New Mexico School for the Arts provides tuition assistance for the Residential Program. Tuition assistance awards are based on proven economic need and availability of funds. Students are first accepted to the school on the basis of their passion, potential, and aptitude in the arts, as demonstrated through their written application, recommendations, and their audition. Students are then considered for tuition assistance for the Residential Program through a separate process. Those students applying for weekday residence and requesting financial assistance should call 505-920-0965 to speak directly with a New Mexico School for the Arts staff member to learn more about Financial Assistance opportunities for our Residential Program, and to request hardcopies of financial forms.
Click below to pay your residential tuition online.
New Mexico School for the Arts admits students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, sexual preference, culture, and religion or with any disability to all of the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to its students. NMSA does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, sexual preference, culture, disability and religion in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, financial aid programs and other programs.