Kudos
100% of BTW seniors graduate from high school and an incredible 98% go onto enroll in college. In 2024, 229 graduating seniors were offered over $33 million dollars in scholarship money!
Not only do BTW seniors receive extraordinary amounts of scholarship offers, they are accepted at and attend amazing colleges across the country. Our graduates are off to schools as varied as Goldsmiths in London, Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, NYU, USC, UCLA, University of Texas, George Washington, Berklee, Columbia, The New School, Juilliard, SMU and more!
Dallas Morning News
Harry Connick Jr. praised the city of Dallas for its support of music’s future through the “phenomenal” Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He was blown away by the facilities and the students during an impromptu visit.
GuideLive
Connick was clearly impressed with the Dallas arts high school. “When I was a kid, I always dreamed of attending a school like this,” he said. “It’s like Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory for artists.”ext" or double click on the text box to start.
Theater Jones
After almost every question, Kristin Chenoweth went on about how emotional it was for her to be in the midst of young artists and how they inspired her. What the Nasher audience also didn't get was Chenoweth singing, a cappella, "Popular" from Wicked when the students asked her if she'd grace us with her voice. She did this despite having bronchitis, which she has been Tweeting about for days. She also praised a Booker T. student who, before the panel took the stage, sang "For Good" from Wicked.
The Dallas Observer
Booker T., where he'd spoken to about 400 students and dropped in on classrooms earlier in the day, is wonderful. "I wish I'd had that as a kid," Kevin Bacon said.
"Booker T. is on the world's artistic map."
Glenn Close