[@Tojin]

My school does offer subjects pertaining to the arts. We've got Theatre Studies, Music Performance, and two or three visual art subjects. The classes for these are pretty small though, only 8-12 students I think. Actually, I think Theatre Studies has only 5 students. In our final year every subject adds to our final overall grade, so you're unlikely to join these subjects unless you're REALLY into it, as in you practise every day and are prepared to make a gigantic portfolio at the end of the year. The school offers IT and Literature classes usually too, but not enough students signed up the year before, so my year level isn't allowed to do those :( 
But yeah, generally the people who do these art subjects don't do the more number-based subjects. Majority of students do 1-2 sciences and 1 maths subject. The students doing art are usually more into the humanity subjects, like History and Legal Studies.
I'm aiming to get into Engineering when I go to uni, so to get a good final score I don't really have the option of doing an art subject.
But man, I would kill to be able to do Visual Media at school. Sounds cool as hell.