For more than 100 years, New York's Professional Children's School has provided an education for young people already engaged in careers in the arts or athletics.

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New York's Professional Children's School (PCS) has offered specialized education for young people with careers in the arts and athletics for more than 100 years. The school accommodates students' professional commitments by providing flexible schedules and tailored academic support, ensuring they can pursue both their education and their careers.

PCS is recognized for its roster of accomplished alumni, including Scarlett Johansson, Yo-Yo Ma, and Rita Moreno. With an annual tuition of nearly $60,000, the school caters to students who are already working, offering individualized attention and understanding of the unique pressures faced by young professionals. The school's history reflects a shift from early 20th-century stigma against child performers to a supportive environment that values both academic achievement and professional growth.

Schooling the stars

I tell people who work here, if you're going to be jealous of a kid's resume, you should probably find a different place to work. James Dawson is head of school at New York's Professional Children's School, where work study takes on a whole different meaning. And there are a few kids who actually make more money than their entire family. You know, they're the major breadwinners. So we're one of the few schools that has to look at kids' tax forms when they're asking for financial aid. It's definitely different. Lots of schools have a famous alum or two, but PCS boasts a Rolodex of notable names. Scarlett Johansson, Yo-Yo Ma, Macaulay Culkin, his brother Kieran, Vera Wang, Milton Berle, Carrie Fisher, Leslie Uggams, Christopher Walken, Ashley Tisdale, Uma Thurman. And before she picked up an Oscar for West Side Story, Rita Moreno went to PCS. Don't confuse PCS with the public high school made famous by the movie and TV show Fame. The students at that school, now called LaGuardia, aspire to careers. Professional Children's School, with an annual tuition of nearly $60,000, is for students who are already working, to make sure they get the education they need on a schedule tailor-made to fit theirs. I came in sixth grade, so I've really been here a while. I started here because I booked a TV show called Single Parents. I'm regretting the purple. I should have dressed like a normal kid. Devin Campbell was just seven and in a regular school when he landed his first Broadway show. I was out a lot. There never really was any time that I was here doing school regularly, so I needed a school that really accommodated to the working child. Kids in showbiz is nothing new, but they weren't always celebrated. In the early part of the 20th century, to be an actor was considered a really inappropriate occupation for a child. So actually, schools would not let a kid who was acting on Broadway come to school. And the two women who started the school went backstage and noticed kids playing cards, and they were like, what are you doing and why aren't you at school? And they said, we can't go to school. So on January 6, 1914, four kids came. Within a year, it was 100 kids, and it really grew from that. I have to go away for maybe a few weeks or a month or two because I have several concerts in foreign countries. You might think school work for 9th grader-slash-concert pianist Taiga Wang would be an annoyance, but he says it's part of his development as an artist. Even for our professions, if you truly want to understand music, you might want to reference Dante sometimes, also like Shakespeare. I view it as I want to have a balance in my life, a balance between ballet and school. Tenth grader and ballet dancer Athena Shavorkin leaves school each morning at 10.30 to train. There's always a lot of sacrifices to be made within a profession. If it is attending a normal school, if it is hanging out with friends after school or doing normal teenager or kid activities. Was there a prom? There was. I went to the prom. And did you get asked to the prom through an agent? No. No, no, no. I got asked just by normal, normally. Tyler Peck enrolled in PCS as a freshman and became an apprentice with New York City Ballet at age 15. Today, she's a principal dancer. And I remember going to Dr. Dawson and saying, you know, it's really hard being in the company and trying to get four full years of high school done. I was a teacher on every night in every ballet. And so he actually worked with me and my teachers so that I could do my high school in three years. Some of these kids experience rejection on a pretty big scale, right? True. If teachers understand that maybe we stopped the class today because we needed to talk and because Johnny just lost his job or the show just got closed or because the producer screamed and yelled and said he's an ugly, horrible person, let's all talk about that. But James Dawson sees rejection as part of their education. I think it gives them wisdom to some extent because, in fact, they have to learn to live through it. To see my name bright in lights, up there on the marquee. All I need from you now is to wake up and see.

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