the new world school of the arts was a pioneer in dual-enrollment education, arising out of an experiment between miami northwestern high school and dade community college (now miami dade college). nwsa was formally created as an outcome of that experiment by the 1986 new world school of the arts act of the florida state legislature as "a center of excellence for the performing and visual art", with the stated intention "that specific attention be given to the needs of artistically talented high school students who are occupationally oriented to the arts."