Baruch College Campus High School

Last updated
Baruch High School
Baruch School logo.png
Address
Baruch College Campus High School
55 East 25th Street

New York City
,
New York
,
Manhattan

USA
Coordinates 40°44′31″N73°59′09″W / 40.74194°N 73.98583°W / 40.74194; -73.98583
Information
Type Public high school
MottoDedicated to providing a challenging interdisciplinary liberal arts education for students in Grades 9-12
Established1997
PrincipalAlicia Perez-Katz
Faculty24 FTEs [1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment452 (as of 2014-15) [1]
Student to teacher ratio18.8:1 [1]
Color(s)   Blue and White
MascotThe Blue Devil
Affiliation Baruch College of the City University of New York
Website www.bcchsnyc.net
Baruch CC High School 55 E25 jeh.jpg

Baruch College Campus High School (BCCHS) is a public high school located in Kips Bay in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. BCCHS is renowned for its high academic standards, advisory program and perfect graduation rate.

Contents

As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 487 students and 24 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 20:1.

History

Baruch College Campus High School was a vision between Anthony Alvarado, the former superintendent of Community School District 2, and Matthew Goldstein, former president of Baruch College. They wanted to create a small, liberal arts college preparatory high school on a college campus. In 1997, the school was established. Jill Myers was the principal for the first 6 years [2] in the original location of the school on 18th Street. The school was later moved to 17 Lexington Avenue's upper floors. In 2009, the school moved to 55 East 25th Street between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue, which is near Baruch College of the City University of New York.

Admissions

Admission to BCCHS is based on a screening process whereby the school evaluates and ranks all applicants based on their previous school year's final academic record, standardized test scores, attendance and punctuality.

In 2011, 7,770 students applied to BCCHS, which was the highest number of applications received by any non-specialized high school in the city. [3] Only 105 students were admitted as freshmen.

Students applying for admission to Baruch College Campus High School (BCCHS) must have a minimum average of 85 or above in every class (no lower than 85) and a score of two to four on the New York State ELA and Math exams. However, due to the large number of applications the school receives each year, they typically admit students that have a GPA in the mid to high 90s and a score of 3 or 4 on the NYS ELA and math exams. Priority is given to students who reside in Manhattan's District 2 or attend a NYCDOE District 2 Middle School, then to all Manhattan residents or students that attend a NYCDOE Manhattan Middle School and then to students who live in other boroughs of New York City. In 2019, BCCHS started to participate in the New York City Diversity In Admissions (DIA) Pilot Program. As part of the DIA program, priority will be given to District 2 students or District 2 residents who are eligible for Free- or Reduced-Priced Lunch status for 34% of seats.

Facilities

The school currently occupies the first five floors of 55 East 25th Street. Facilities include a gymnasium and a computer laboratory. Previously, the school was located at 17 Lexington Avenue on the 10th floor of the old Baruch College building.

Students can use a few of the facilities at Baruch College, such as the Newman Library.

Academics

The required courses are all honors-level courses. Students must earn a grade of 70 or above to pass a course. (Courses set to be implemented in the year of 2017–2018)

*Denotes Required NYS Regents Exam in June
GradeMathHistoryEnglishScienceForeign LanguagePhysical EducationArts and Electives
9th GradeAlgebra*, Geometry* (Geometry/algebra hybrid)Global Studies IGlobal LiteratureLiving Environment/Biology*Spanish I, Spanish IIPhysical EducationWriting Arts
10th GradeGeometry*, Algebra II/trigonometry*Global Studies II*Global Literature IIEarth Science*, Chemistry*,

AP Environmental Science

Spanish II, Spanish III*Physical EducationStudio Art
11th GradeAlgebra II/trigonometry*, Pre-CalculusUnited States History*, AP United States History American Literature*, AP English Literature and Composition Chemistry*, Physics*, AP Physics Spanish III*, Spanish IVPhysical EducationAdvanced Art, Computer Science
12th GradeCalculus, AP Calculus AB, College Calculus, AP Statistics Personal Finance/Economics, Comparative Government, AP Comparative Government and Politics AP English Language and Composition AP Biology, AP Physics, Cognitive SciencePhysical EducationAdvanced Art

Note: All students are required to take the AP exam if enrolled in an AP class.

Students take electives in their junior and senior year. In the past, electives include Psychology, Writing and Film, Math and Space, Computers, Writing, Art and Spontaneity, Drumming, Music, Mythology and Folklore, and Internship.

Students are also offered the opportunity to take selected Baruch College courses free of charge beginning the summer of their junior year. Before a senior graduates, they are expected to complete a thesis on a topic approved by their advisor.

In addition to fulfilling their academic requirements, students are also required to read at least 25 books per year as well as complete 20 hours of community service each academic year.

Extracurricular Activities

Athletics

Sports Recognition

BCCHS student athletes participate in competitive sports in the Public Schools Athletic League.

  • The girls' basketball team has remained one of the most competitive in the city in the A Division. In 2009, the team won a championship title.
  • The wrestling team won the PSAL City Championship Tournament in 2010, sending six wrestlers to the finals.

Student organizations

Academic

Environmentalism

  • Lorax

Humanitarianism

Student life

  • Graduation Committee – This committee plans the ceremony and decides on the types of awards that will be presented at graduation.
  • Prom Committee – This committee decides on the prom theme, fundraises, and plans the event.
  • Senior Trip Committee – This committee decides where the Senior Class will go on their senior trip. As of now, senior trip is planned by the Student Government.
  • Student Government Organization

Performing Arts

  • Theater Club
  • Film Club

Publications

  • The 411 Press

The 411 Press is the official school newspaper of BCCHS.
It is a monthly newspaper featuring four sections: Baruch News, Editorial, Sports, and Entertainment.
The staff hold meetings every Wednesday throughout the school year.

  • Yearbook Committee

Social

Sports

  • Running Club
  • Badminton Club

Traditions

There are annual pep rallies throughout the year hosted by the student government.

Greenkill

Every year, the freshman class embarks upon a 3-day trip to Greenkill, New York. The trip is intended to promote social unity among freshmen.

Cultural Show

First organized by the Asian American Club in 2006, the annual show features student performances that celebrate the cultural diversity within the school.

Dance Competition

With dance integrated in the physical education curriculum, every student will eventually learn to square dance, hustle (dance), salsa (dance), and swing (one dance per year). A group of students practice with professional dancers and compete in pairs to win a trophy. As of now, this tradition has been gone.

Film Festival

Films created by students and faculty are shown at the annual festival, which is organized by the Film Club, the oldest club in existence at the school. As of now, this tradition has been gone.

Evening in the Arts

Organized in 2009, Evening in the Arts is a celebration of the arts happening within the Baruch community. Performances include drumming, music, drama and art displays from Baruch students, particularly from those students enrolled in AP Studio Art (in 2011–2012 school year will be known as Advanced Art). The celebration occurs toward the end of the school year and is held in the school cafeteria. This tradition is no longer applicable.

Sports Banquet

Student athletes, coaches, families, and friends celebrate the accomplishments of Baruch's athletic year. The banquet includes awards to recognize the scholar athletes of the year. The celebrations usually end with a compilation video made by a student, highlighting each team's accomplishments.

Field Day

After being absent for a few years, field day was reintroduced back in 2002 by a former Ms. Jaffe advisory group. The event occurs at the end of each school year when the majority of the student body as well as faculty members attend a social outing in Central Park in New York, NY. For an entire school day, students participate in peer-led activities and represent their advisories in competitive games. These events are hosted by Sophomores who plan out the theme of the day, games to play, and other creative activities that enhance Baruch spirit and teamwork. This is a fun and relaxing day for students and teachers after a busy year full of homework, projects and exams.

Advisory Trip

Each semester, advisories take a variety of trips to get to know one another better. Advisories have taken trips to local parks such as Central Park, as well as restaurants, billiard halls, movie theaters, ice skating rinks, bowling alleys, and even to school to have a party. These trips typically occur on Fridays from 12 pm to 3 pm and days vary between grades.

Senior Trip

Often, the graduating class goes on a senior class trip to Florida. Exceptions include 2005, 2009 and 2013 when the graduating class decided to go skiing in upstate New York, 2011 when the graduating class decided to go to Cape Cod in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and 2013 when they went to Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school has stopped out-of-state and overnight trips. The recent graduates, such as the class of 2019, has gone to Six Flags for their senior trip.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School</span> Specialized high school in New York City

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, often referred to simply as LaGuardia, is a public high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located near Lincoln Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. Located at 100 Amsterdam Avenue between West 64th and 65th Streets, the school is operated by the New York City Department of Education, and resulted from the merger of the High School of Music & Art and the School of Performing Arts. The school has a dual mission of arts and academics, preparing students for a career in the arts or conservatory study as well as a pursuit of higher education.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hunter College High School</span> Public magnet school in New York City, US

Hunter College High School is an academic magnet secondary school located in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is administered and funded by Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and no tuition is charged. According to Hunter, its 1,200 “students represent the top one-quarter of 1% of students in New York City, based on test scores."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The College Preparatory School</span> Private college preparatory school in Oakland, California, US

The College Preparatory School is a four-year private high school in Oakland, California. The school's motto is Mens Conscia Recti, a Latin phrase adapted from Virgil's Aeneid that means "a mind aware of what is right".

Lick-Wilmerding High School is a private college-preparatory high school located in San Francisco, California, United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Head-Royce School</span> Private school in Oakland, California, United States

Head-Royce School is a private co-educational college-preparatory K-12 school in Oakland, California. The forerunner of Head-Royce was the Anna Head School for Girls in Berkeley, founded in 1887. Relocated to its current site in 1964, Anna Head School for Girls merged with the neighboring Royce School in 1979 to form the present-day Head-Royce School.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tottenville High School</span> Public, coeducational school in New York City , , New York, United States

Tottenville High School is located at 100 Luten Avenue, in Huguenot, Staten Island, New York. Tottenville H.S. is in Administrative District 31, and is operated by the New York City Department of Education. The school's principal is Gina Battista, who assumed the role in 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Beacon School</span> Selective public high school in New York, New York, United States

The Beacon School is a highly-selective college-preparatory public high school in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City near Times Square and the Theater District. Beacon's curriculum exceeds the standards set by the New York State Regents, and as a member of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, its students are exempt from taking most Regents exams. Instead, students present performance-based projects at the end of each semester to panels of teachers. In 2019, the school received roughly 6,000 applications for 360 ninth-grade seats, yielding an acceptance rate of approximately 6.2%. Beacon is ranked 45th within New York State and 382th nationwide by U.S. News.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Forest Hills High School (New York)</span> Public secondary school in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States

Forest Hills High School (FHHS) is a high school in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. Dedicated in 1937, it educates students in grades 9–12 and is operated by the New York City Department of Education. The school serves students from Forest Hills and Rego Park, as well as other nearby Queens neighborhoods such as Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Jamaica, Kew Gardens, Maspeth, Middle Village, and Woodside.

The Academy of American Studies is a public high school in Long Island City, Queens, New York, which was founded in 1996 by the New York City Board of Education and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. In June 2022, the school had approximately 1200 students;

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Murry Bergtraum High School</span> Public high school in New York City

The Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers is a public secondary school in New York City. It is located in Lower Manhattan, adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall. Bergtraum offers business-oriented courses to prepare students for careers in marketing, tourism, finance, human resources, information systems, economics, computer science, law, and secretarial fields. The school also combines its business curriculum with an academic program that gears towards preparation for college. In recent years, the school has been integrating more humanities and liberal arts courses to enrich the school's curriculum.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Francis Lewis High School</span> Public school in Fresh Meadows, New York, United States

Francis Lewis High School (FLHS) is a selective public high school located in Fresh Meadows, in the New York City borough of Queens. It is one of the most-applied-to public high schools in New York City with 9,468 applicants in 2016. Operated by the New York City Department of Education, the school serves students of grades 9–12. The school is named after Francis Lewis, who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New York.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pace University High School</span> Public high school, school in New York, New York, United States

Pace University High School, also known as "Pace High School," is a public high school located in the New York City borough of Manhattan, affiliated with Pace University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saint Peter-Marian High School</span> Private, coeducational school in Worcester, , Massachusetts, United States

Saint Peter-Marian Central Catholic Junior-Senior High School, was a private, coeducational Catholic junior high and senior high school in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. The school was more commonly referred to as St. Peter-Marian, or informally as SPM or St. Peter's. It was one of four high schools operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester and was accredited by The New England Association of Schools & Colleges in 1969. Unfortunately, after the 2019-2020 school year, SPM closed and merged with Holy Name. The school that they created is called Saint Paul’s, it is on the Holy Name campus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James Madison High School (Brooklyn)</span> High school in New York

James Madison High School is a public high school in the Midwood section of Brooklyn New York City. It serves students in grades 9 through 12 and is in Region 6 of the New York City Department of Education.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences</span> Public school in Brooklyn, NY, United States

The Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, formerly Kingsborough High School for the Sciences at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY from 1993 to 1999) is a four-year high school, located in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York. Leon M. Goldstein High School is screened-admission public school under the administration of the New York City Department of Education.

College of Staten Island High School For International Studies (CSIHSIS) is a New York City public high school that incorporates an internationally themed curriculum as well as preparing students for the 21st Century. CSIHSIS originally opened as a Region 7 public high school in 2005 on the College of Staten Island campus and moved to a new building in September 2008 located in New Springville, Staten Island. It was founded through a partnership with The College of Staten Island and Asia Society, with financial support by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Ursuline School</span> Private, all-female school in New Rochelle, , New York, United States

The Ursuline School is an American all-girls', independent, private, Roman Catholic middle and high school located on a 13-acre (53,000 m2) campus in New Rochelle, New York, in Westchester County.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Staten Island Technical High School</span> Specialized high school in New York City

Staten Island Technical High School, commonly called Staten Island Tech or SITHS, was founded in 1988. Located in Staten Island, New York City, the public specialized high school is operated by the New York City Department of Education. It consistently ranks among the best schools in New York City, New York State, and the nation in graduation rate, test scores, and attendance. According to niche.com, Staten Island Tech ranks #2 in New York State as well as #13 in the nation. Admission to SITHS is determined through an applicant's score on the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School (New York City)</span> Public school in Brooklyn, New York, United States

Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School is a coeducational public high school located at 5800 20th Avenue in the Mapleton section of Brooklyn, New York. It is a zoned/public high school, with an enrollment of approximately 3,700 students, encompassing grades 9–12. In total, the school includes 280,717 sq feet of class space, gyms, cafeteria, and auditorium.

References

  1. 1 2 3 School data for Baruch College Campus High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ Baruch College Campus High School - An Overview
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Gotham Schools. Archived from the original on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2011-05-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.