Plainfield Academy for the Arts and Advanced Studies (PAAAS) is a magnet six-year public middle school / high school specializing in visual and performing arts that serves students in seventh through twelfth grades from Plainfield, in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

[2] Opened in September 2009, the school requires that students are residents of the city who have been enrolled in the district for a minimum of a year.

[3] As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 345 students and 41.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.4:1.

There were 204 students (59.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 55 (15.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

[1] Plainfield Academy for the Arts and Advanced Studies (PAAAS) was ranked by U.S. News & World Report at 137th among New Jersey’s 551 secondary schools and ranked within the top 40% in the nation.