Boys and Girls High School
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Boys and Girls High School | |
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1700 Fulton Street , United States | |
Coordinates | Coordinates: 40°40′44.4″N 73°55′53.4″W / 40.679000°N 73.931500°W |
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Type | Public high school |
Established | 1975 |
School board | New York City Public Schools |
School number | K455 |
Principal | Grecian Harrison |
Faculty | 43.0 FTEs[1] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 643 (as of 2014–15)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 15.0:1[1] |
Color(s) | Red, white and black |
Mascot | Kangaroo |
Website | boysandgirlshs |
Boys and Girls High School, the oldest public high school in Brooklyn, is a comprehensive high school in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, United States. The school is located at 1700 Fulton Street.[2]
As of the 2014–15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 643 students and 43.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.0:1. There were 463 students (72.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 15 (2.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]
History
Brooklyn's first public high school, the Central Grammar School (named "Central" rather than "Free" to avoid controversy over providing free "higher education" for poor children), opened, September 1878 in a rented building on Court & Livingston Streets. A new building was planned on the east side of Nostrand Avenue between from Halsey and Macon Streets, designed by Superintendent of Buildings James W. Naughton, but by the time it opened in 1886, enrollment had increased to the point where it was decided to use this building as the girls' high school and to build a separate building for the boys.[3] The boys remained in the Court Street space. As there were now effectively two schools, in 1891 they were renamed as the Girls' High School and the Boys' High School. A new building for the boys was begun in 1891, on Marcy Avenue, between Madison Street & Putnam Avenue. it opened as Boys High School on November 1, 1892. In 1975 the two schools were merged once again, and shortly afterwards moved into their present building at Fulton Street and Utica Avenue.[4]
From 1986 until 2004, the school's principal was Frank Mickens, who dealt with the school's many problems during the 1980s, and turned into an excellent college preparatory institution for poor and marginalized young men and women. By 1989 some 70 percent of graduates were enrolled in colleges. Though Mickens methods were attacked on the grounds that he was steering undesirable students to other institutions, his success was hard to question;[5][6] and there had been no objections during the long years in which both Boys' and Girls' had been in decline, largely due to "steering" good students to other places.
Mission Statement
The mission statement for Boys and Girls High school is, "The mission of Boys and Girls High School is to prepare our students to achieve their full potential, make positive choices, and have a plan for life after high school. This will be accomplished by creating an environment that will successfully teach our students to think critically and conscientiously about themselves, their community, and their global village."[7]
Noted alumni
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- Isaac Asimov (Isaak Yudovich Ozimov), writer[8]
- Jules Bender, basketball player
- Albert Blaustein (1921–1994), civil rights and human rights lawyer and constitutional consultant who helped draft the Fijian and Liberian constitutions.[9]
- Emanuel Celler, Congressman
- Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman, presidential candidate
- Ray Copeland, jazz trumpeter
- Aaron Copland, composer
- Tommy Davis, baseball and basketball player[10]
- Norma Donaldson, actress, singer.[citation needed]
- Ronnie Dyson, singer
- Connie Hawkins, basketball player
- Rita Hayworth, actress
- Lena Horne, singer, actress
- Edward Everett Horton, actor and comedian
- Duke Jordan, jazz pianist
- Alan King, actor and comedian
- Morris Lapidus, architect
- Norman Mailer, author
- Mickey Marcus, attorney and soldier
- Sean Michaels, adult film actor and director
- Jean Nidetch, businesswoman
- Cecil Payne, jazz saxophonist
- Man Ray, avant-garde artist, photographer
- Dwayne "Pearl" Washington, basketball player
- Randy Weston, jazz pianist
- Irving Thalberg, movie producer
- John C. Whitehead, Artist / politician
- Lenny Wilkens, basketball player
- Dom Zanni, baseball player[10]
- Hugh Evans, Referee NBA
References
- ^ a b c d School data for Boys And Girls High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
- ^ Jake Mooney, " Dispatches: A Second Chance for Students Left Behind" The New York Times November 28, 2008
- ^ "19th Century", NYC Department of Education.
- ^ "Boys High School And Historic Dock Made Landmarks; Boys High And a Dock Are Cited"], Joseph P. Fried, October 5, 1975, The New York Times
- ^ Libby Nelson, New York Times July 10, 2009
- ^ Neil A. Lewis, "A Tough Principal Turns a School Around" New York Times April 6, 1989
- ^ https://www.boysandgirlshs.org
- ^ Asimov, Isaac (1973). The Early Asimov Volume 1. St. Albans, UK: Panther Books. p. 10. ISBN 058603806X.
- ^ Perez-Pena, Richard. "Albert Blaustein, Who Drafted Nations' Constitutions, Dies at 72", The New York Times, August 22, 1994. Accessed August 9, 2019. "Albert P. Blaustein, a law professor who dedicated nearly three decades of his life to drafting constitutions for nations in transition, died yesterday at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., after suffering a heart attack.... Born on Oct. 12, 1921, in Brooklyn, Mr. Blaustein graduated from Boys High School at age 16."
- ^ a b "Boys and Girls (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. Retrieved February 14, 2011.[permanent dead link]
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