Alberta School of Performing Arts, Tuscaloosa: zone and report card

Last checked Oct. 17, 2026. Sources: the school’s website, principal’s message, school profile and arts page; Tuscaloosa City Schools’ schools directory, zoning map, feeder patterns and specialty schools page; the district’s 2026-27 calendar; the Alabama State Department of Education’s state report card for 2024-25; and the federal NCES school directory for 2023-24.

The Alberta School of Performing Arts, known as TASPA, is a pre-K through eighth grade school on University Boulevard East in the Alberta neighborhood. It is two schools in one: for kindergarten through fifth grade it is the zoned neighborhood school for part of the Northridge zone, and its middle grades, 6 to 8, take students from across the city by application and audition. Alabama graded TASPA a B, with 86 points, on its 2024-25 report card.

Who to call

• Front office: 205-759-3564, 2700 University Blvd. E.
• School website: taspa.tuscaloosacityschools.com
• Enrolling a new student: online registration through PowerSchool, linked from the district’s enrollment page. Central Office: 205-759-3700, 1210 Almon Ave.
• Which school is my address zoned for? the district’s zoning map, or Student Services at 205-759-3502
• Middle grades applications: the district’s specialty schools page
• Buses: the district’s Transportation Department, 205-247-2400

Principal

Principal Chenale Taylor-Maye, according to the school’s principal’s message.

Enrollment and teachers

• State count: 604 students on the 2024-25 Alabama state report card, down from 655 a year earlier. The school’s website puts the current figure at 694.
• Federal count: 705 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 15 students per teacher.

The counts are taken at different times and by different rules, so they do not match. The school’s profile says two pre-K classrooms serve 36 children.

The arts program

The school calls itself one of the district’s three specialty schools. Students may focus on dance, theater, vocal and instrumental music, and visual art, according to its arts page. Its school profile says children in kindergarten through third grade get regular lessons in all four art forms, fourth and fifth graders begin to focus on one, and middle school students study their art form in depth alongside the core curriculum.

State report card

Alabama grades every public school from A to F each year. The grade comes from a 100-point score built from students’ achievement and growth on state tests in English language arts and math, chronic absenteeism (the share of students who missed 18 or more days) and progress in English language proficiency, according to the Alabama State Department of Education’s report card rules.

2024-25 grade: B, 86 points, up from a B and 82 points on the 2023-24 card. That matches the score for Tuscaloosa City Schools as a whole, a B with 86 points.

TASPA’s full report card, with results by student group, teachers and spending, is on the state’s report card site. The card lists it as a schoolwide Title I school.

Attendance zone and admission

Check an address with the district’s zoning map: type the address, click the blue box on it and the map shows the elementary, middle and high school zones. Zones do not follow the city limits.

In the district’s feeder patterns, the Northridge zone’s elementary schools are TASPA, Verner and Rock Quarry, and they feed Northridge Middle and then Northridge High. The district says TASPA’s grades 6 to 8 are by application only, serve students citywide and are not part of the feeder pattern.

The district’s specialty schools page says the admissions window for 2026-27 is closed; that year’s application closed Jan. 30, 2026. After applications are processed, the school contacts students to schedule auditions, according to its arts page, which lists what each area asks for (art students bring a portfolio of five finished works, for example).

Calendar

TASPA follows Tuscaloosa City Schools’ 2026-27 calendar (district calendars are on its calendar page). Coming dates:

• Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, schools closed
• Nov. 23-27: fall break and Thanksgiving holidays, schools closed
• Friday, Dec. 18: half day for students, end of the first semester
• Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter holidays, schools closed; students return Wednesday, Jan. 6

On scheduled half days, the calendar says, elementary schools including The Alberta School of Performing Arts dismiss at 11:30 a.m. The district does not publish daily bell times on its website; call the front office for start and dismissal times.

More

• The district’s schools directory, with every school’s address and phone
• Every public school in Tuscaloosa, with zones and report cards
• Our Alberta neighborhood guide
• Our Tuscaloosa schools guide for the district calendar, enrollment and the school board

Frequently asked questions

What grades does The Alberta School of Performing Arts serve?

Pre-K through eighth grade. The elementary grades are the zoned school for part of the Northridge zone; grades 6 to 8 are by application and audition.

What is The Alberta School of Performing Arts’ state report card grade?

TASPA earned a B, with 86 points, on Alabama’s 2024-25 state report card, up from 82 points a year earlier.

Which middle and high school do Alberta’s elementary students feed into?

Northridge Middle, then Northridge High, according to the district’s feeder patterns, unless a student is accepted to TASPA’s own middle grades or another specialty program.

How do students get into TASPA’s middle school?

Through the district’s specialty school application, followed by an audition in art, band, dance, theater or another focus area, the school says.