Student Life
Through strong relationships with their teachers, advisors and with each other, Urban students learn early on how to navigate a culture of collaboration, inclusion and mutual respect, both inside and outside the classroom. Urban has more than 30 student clubs, as well as student government, an active outdoor and class trips program, and a student newspaper, yearbook, and online literary and arts journal. Performing arts opportunities include fall and winter theatre productions, circus class performances and the annual One Act Festival. Urban also offers an advanced and junior jazz and, a chamber orchestra and the Urban Singers chorus. The visual arts classes range from film and photography to printmaking, stone carving and book binding.
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