The Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences, also known as "TSAS", is a public charter school serving grades 9-12 located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The TSAS mission is to provide a liberal arts, college preparatory curriculum through innovative teaching methods focused on developing the individual. Enrollment is approximately 275 students, and as a public charter school, accepts only students who reside within Tulsa Public Schools boundaries, when there are more applicants than can be accepted, a random lottery open to the public determines new pupils.
TSAS was founded in 2001 as the city's first charter high school by a group of educators primarily from Tulsa's Memorial High School, it provides a college preparatory curriculum mixing liberal arts with sciences and mathematics.
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