Editor's Note:    The Huntington Beach Unified High School District has an amazing arts program.  Called the Academy for the Performing Arts (APA).  Since 1993, it has been a magnet school for the arts serving the students in the eight traditional high schools in the district who can either stay in their home school and take courses after the normal day or transfer to Huntington Beach High School, where it is housed.

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Orange County educates the second largest K-12 student population in California,  with a public school enrollment of 500,000 students in 2010-2011

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