New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

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New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
Address
2800 Chartres Street New Orleans , Louisiana 70117 United States
Coordinates	29°57′48.02″N 90°2′58.97″W / 29.9633389°N 90.0497139°W / 29.9633389; -90.0497139
Information
Type	Public
Established	1973
President	Silas Cooper
Grades	9 to 12
Website	nocca.com

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, or NOCCA, is the regional, pre-professional arts training center for high school students in Louisiana. NOCCA opened in 1973 as a professional arts training center for secondary school-age children. Located in New Orleans, it provides intensive instruction in culinary arts, creative writing, dance, media arts, music (classical, jazz, vocal), theatre arts (drama, musical theatre, theatre design), and visual arts.

NOCCA was founded by a group of artists, educators, business leaders, and community activists. Tuition is free to all Louisiana students who meet audition requirements. Students from over 100 public, private, parochial and home schools attend in the afternoon or late-day as well as Academic Studio students who attend NOCCA for the full day.

In 2000, NOCCA moved to a campus in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood. Before that, NOCCA was housed for many years in an old elementary school building on Perrier Street in Uptown New Orleans.