Important Resources:

GENERAL MAGNET QUESTIONS? Call 352-955-7622

2022-2023 ACPR Magnet Information Link

Our 2022 Open House is on 1/26/2022 @ 6:30 pm at our school

• 3000 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32641 

We will offer "Shadow Days" from January 24-February 4th for students who are interested and meet the eligibility criteria.

You may call the school at 352-955-6839 or fill out this form Academy Shadow Day Sign-Up

Application Requirements

• Please visit the CTE Application Website for dates and other important information.
• Minimum requirement is a 2.5 GPA, no more than 10 unexcused absences, discipline including current and prior school year: no "major" referrals and no more than 4 out-of-school suspension days.  
• Essay Required: All high school applicants will answer one short answer response prompt (300 words or less): "Describe in detail something you are passionate about or something that motivates you."

• The arts teach students how to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
• The arts teach students that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
• The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
• The arts teach students that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstances and opportunity.
• The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we know.
• The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
• The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
• The arts help students learn to say what cannot be said.
• The arts enable us to have experiences we can have from no other source and to discover the range of what we are capable of feeling.
• The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young: what adults believe is important.