How to Apply

Now Accepting Applications!

We are accepting applications for the 2025-2026 school year.
All applications consist of two parts: an audition and an online application.

1

Your Audition

Certain departments allow for auditions during a shadow experience. All departments will audition on SPIN Night for scheduled auditions. Visit our How to Audition page for more information about audition options. We also travel to our partner middle schools to hold auditions.

Please read carefully about your discipline’s unique audition requirements.

2

Your Online Application

Booker High VPA uses a platform called Jotform for our applications. Your application for the 2025-26 school year can be completed any time now through Friday May 30th, 2025.

Your application will include:

  • contact information for the student

  • contact information for recommenders (2)

  • a digital copy of most recent report card

  • statement about the student’s relationship to their chosen field

Apply for the Dance Department

Apply for the Production & Design Department

Apply for the Film & Animation Department

Apply for the Theatre Department

Apply for the Music Department

Apply for the Visual Art Department

Our Acceptance Process

Acceptance will depend on availability in each program. The Booker High School Visual and Performing Arts program is the area’s most prestigious and widely recognized public pre-professional arts program, and admission is by audition only. All students must successfully complete an online application and an audition to join any of our six departments. Each department, whether performance or visual, provides information about the audition process and can be accessed on the How to Audition page.

The application components include academic competence, strong recommendations by current teachers or mentors, and, of course, demonstration of skill in the discipline of choice.

If students want to apply to more than one discipline, please reach out to coordinate.