Bennett High School | |
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Address | |
2885 Main Street , 14214 | |
Coordinates | 42°56′38″N78°49′56″W / 42.94389°N 78.83222°W |
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Funding type | Public |
Motto | Optima Futura (The Best is Yet to Be) |
Opened | September 8, 1925 |
Status | Now called Lewis J. Bennett High School of Innovated Technology |
School district | Buffalo Public Schools |
School number | 200 |
Grades | 9–12 |
Color(s) | Blue and orange |
Team name | Tigers |
Yearbook | Beacon |
Website | buffaloschools |
Bennett High School was an American high school located in the University Heights section of Buffalo, New York. It was named after Lewis J. Bennett, who donated the land for the school and for All High Stadium. Bennett High School formerly was a magnet school with three college prep programs: the Academy of International Law (similar to pre-law), Business and Computers (similar to information systems), and Education and the Arts. [1]
Bennett High School was built in 1923. It has four stories with 270,000 square feet (25,000 m2). It is named after Lewis J. Bennett, who donated the land for the school and for All High Stadium. Portions of the 1984 movie The Natural were filmed in All High Stadium, although it was filmed as Wrigley Field.
The school was renovated in the summer of 2005 and the summer of 2006. During this time, some students were housed at Bennett while others were housed at nearby School 63 on Minnesota Avenue.
In 2014, the alumni association and the Buffalo Board of Education worked cooperatively to bring a dramatic change to the curriculum at Bennett. In 2017, the last class of students in the original Bennett programs graduated. At the same time a new program was put into place, the Lewis J. Bennett High School of Innovative Technology. Its first graduating class was in 2020.
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