Photojournalist Jasmine Goldband took a look inside the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's full-time high school program.

High school isn't the same for everyone. It's especially different for a small group of very talented and goal-oriented young people enrolled in Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School's high-school program.
Most weeks, they work on their academics during a long midday break, between lengthy early morning and late afternoon dance classes, as well as in the evening. Nearly all study in cyber school or are home-schooled.
Twenty-one of the 28 full-time high-school students in the program live at Byham House, which opened in September 2010 as the residence for out-of-town students in the ballet program. At ages 15 to 17, they experience dormitory life, with young men and women on separate floors. There are house rules to obey, such as a buddy system for going out and procedures for checking in and out.
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(This video won first place in the National Press Photographers Association's monthly nationwide competition for December 2014.)

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