Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts

Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, or Charter Arts, is an audition-based, tuition-free public charter school, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state. The school's address is 321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015.

The school first opened in September 2003 under the name Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts before changing to its current name The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts).

Charter Arts is an audition-based public charter school that provides a comprehensive curriculum for high school students, grades 9-12, who have a passion for the arts. Students major in one of seven artistic areas: dance, instrumental music, literary arts, production arts, theatre, visual arts, or vocal music.

Charter Arts' rigorous curriculum fosters both academic and artistic excellence for its students. The school’s impressive Future Ready PA Index ranking, Advanced Placement (AP) exam statistics, Keystone Exam statistics, SAT scores, prestigious artistic accolades, and graduation rate, are testaments to the outstanding education that Charter Arts provides.

The school has a full complement of core courses at the College Preparatory (CP), Honors, and Advanced Placement (AP) levels.

Charter Arts is proud to celebrate its eighteenth year as one of the most respected high schools for the arts in the nation. Charter Arts was one of only 349 schools in the nation to be named a 2018 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education. In 2020, the school earned the Title I Distinguished School designation for the fourth year in a row, placing it in the top 5 % of all Title I high schools in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Recently, Charter Arts was ranked as #1 Best Public High School Teachers in PA (out of 666) and #1 Best Charter High School in Pennsylvania on Niche's 2021 Best Schools in America Rankings.<Niche.com<

Students commute to the school daily from over 40 surrounding Pennsylvania school districts.

In September 2015, after residing for twelve years in a restored factory building on North Broad Street in Bethlehem, the school opened a new 87,000 square-foot facility located in the heart of South Bethlehem's arts district. www.CharterArts.org