Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts

The Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, known unofficially as Grand Arts High School, is a magnet, public high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. It is located on the site of the old Fort Moore at the corner of Grand Avenue and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, adjacent to Chinatown. The school's distinctive architecture has made the facility noteworthy beyond the Los Angeles area.The school reserves 1,200 enrollment slots for students in the surrounding area and the rest from across the district. Admission requires no prior training or auditions and there is no tuition or fees.The school's principal is Ken Martinez and, as of August 2013, the school's executive artistic director is Kim "New York" Bruno (former principal of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts).ProgramsThe school offers a full range of standard academic programs as well as specialty programs in four arts academies:Dance AcademyMusic AcademyTheatre AcademyVisual Arts AcademyHistoryWhen the school opened on September 9, 2009, it was known as Central Los Angeles High School #9. Suzanne Blake was its first principal. In June, 2011, the school board renamed the school in honor of then-former school district superintendent Ramon C. Cortines. As of 2014, it has been unofficially called Grand Arts High School.