School Focus Fall 23

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Innovation Expanding

Imagination

MSA Provides Unique Arts and Collegiate Experiences for Mississippi High Schoolers across the state. MSA, located in the

public, residential art schools in the

heart of Brookhaven in southwest

nation, the distinct educational jour-

Of Mississippi’s Schools and Dis-

Mississippi, was officially designated

ney MSA offers students is rivaled by

tricts of Innovation, the Mississippi

as a School of Innovation by MDE for

few others.

School of the Arts (MSA) offers a truly

the 2022-23 academic year, though

“Students audition in their tenth-

unique approach to high school ed-

the school was founded through in-

grade year to attend MSA in one of six

ucation for juniors and seniors from

novative ideas. Being one of only nine

arts disciplines: dance, literary, me-

By Chance Carden

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Fall 2023