Haaren High School was an American high school located 10th Avenue 59th Street, Manhattan, in New York City. The school was noted for its vocational program including classes focusing on internal combustion engines. The facility was constructed in 1903 to house DeWitt Clinton High School. When that school relocated in 1927, it became home to Haaren High School until that school closed in the late 1970s and when Fame was filmed it was disused. After developers announced plans to renovate the building to house offices, production studios and retail, John Jay College purchased the structure in 1988 and remodeled it to house offices, a library, classrooms and other facilities.

Haaren High School was used for Interior of the 1980 Fame Movie and both Interiors and Exteriors for the Fame TV Pilot "Metamorphosis" filmed in December 1980. The School of the Art sign was created for filming to replace the Haaren High School Sign.

Outside shots were filmed with the students gathering on the steps outside the school where Garcy is telling Montgomery a joke; Leroy is trying to sell Bruno a chain and two incidents where Julie collides with Coco. The first as she gets out of a taxi and bumps into Coco and the second where she accidentally spills coffee over Coco.

The image of Hararn High School was used on a U.S. Fame poster magazine in 1982 and of the cover of the U.K. 1984 Fame Annual. Strangely both these images changed the school sign to say School of the Arts rather than High School of the Arts as used in the pilot episode.