Youth Performing Arts School
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YPAS offers the following majors: Design and Production, Vocal, Orchestra, Band, Piano, Guitar, Theater, Musical Theatre, and Dance.
Notable alumni
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- Chad Broskey (2005), actor
- Sean Cunningham, musician, singer
- Paige Davis (1987), theater performer, host of Trading Spaces on TLC from 2001 to 2005
- Sara Gettelfinger (1995), Broadway performer and film actress (Sex and the City)
- Key'mon Winkfield Murrah, singer
- R. Prophet, rapper
- Kira Reed (1989), actress and television producer
- Nicole Scherzinger (1996), past member and lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls, actress, and Tony Award Winner.