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1786 – Erasmus Hall High School – oldest public high school in the city, founded as Erasmus Hall Academy, a private school. Later joined by free academy in the 1840s as the first public high school, which later becomes City College of New York. Wooden schoolhouse was opened in 1787. Later wings were added and removed.
The history of education in New York City includes schools and schooling from the colonial era to the present. It includes public and private schools, as well as higher education. Annual city spending on public schools quadrupled from $250 million in 1946 to $1.1 billion in 1960. It reached $38 billion in 2022, or $38,000 per public school ...
Collocated schools: Andrew Jackson High School (Queens) (closed 1994) Humanities and the Arts Magnet High School – Q498. Mathematics, Science Research and Technology Magnet High School – Q492. Institute for Health Professions at Cambria Heights – Q243. Benjamin Franklin High School for Finance & Information Technology - Q313.
Girls' High School. Coordinates: 40.6815°N 73.9496°W. Girls High School building on Nostrand Avenue. Girls' High School was a public high school in Brooklyn, New York. It was located in a historically and architecturally notable building located at 475 Nostrand Avenue in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood. It was built in 1886.
Alexander Hamilton Technical and Vocational High School was a former high school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, [1] named after Alexander Hamilton, chief staff aide to General George Washington, one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the U.S. Constitution, and the founder of the nation's financial system as the first ...
Boys High School (Brooklyn) / 40.68444°N 73.94833°W / 40.68444; -73.94833. Boys High School is a historic and architecturally notable public school building in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States. It is regarded as "one of Brooklyn's finest buildings". [2]
The Bronx High School of Science was founded in 1938 as a specialized science and math high school for boys, by resolution of the Board of Education of the City of New York, with Morris Meister as the first principal of the school. They were given use of an antiquated Gothic-gargoyled edifice located at Creston Avenue and 184th Street.
The school was established in 1929 and named for former US president, Abraham Lincoln. From when the school opened its doors in September 1930 through the next 25 years, the school principal was Dr. Gabriel R. Mason. In 1983, Dr. Jack Pollock, the principal, reported that 8 of 10 graduates attended college and/or university.