[2] CoSA is largely an after-hours program[2] with a focus on the arts, in which students take academic courses at Coronado High School in the morning.

[1] It has Ph.D.s on its faculty and what The San Diego Union-Tribune calls "a formidable fund-raising auxiliary", the CoSA Foundation.

[2] In 2005, four evacuees of Hurricane Katrina relocated from the damaged New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.

[citation needed] The Coronado School of the Arts Foundation provides the oversight and fundraising apparatus [1] for CoSA.

The remaining money is provided by the Coronado Unified School District, and through special state and federal grants.