Orange County Public Schools plans to renovate a century-old downtown Orlando campus and turn it into an arts and technology high school focused on cinematic arts, sound design and emerging media.

The School of Arts & Entertainment at Cherokee will be housed at the old Cherokee School and serve about 650 students. OCPS hopes to open it for the 2028-29 school year

The goal is a magnet school — open to any student in the county — focused on jobs in the local entertainment industry and offering classes in animation, visual effects, audio engineering and digital arts, among others. Administrators said its unique focus would make it a first-in-the nation offering, and students would benefit from a location just a mile from the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

“Students will be pr

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