Canarsie High School

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Canarsie High School
1600 Rockaway Parkway
Brooklyn, New York

11236

United States
Coordinates 40°38′26″N73°53′53″W / 40.64056°N 73.89806°W / 40.64056; -73.89806
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Type Public
Established1964
Closed2011 (reopened as Canarsie Educational Campus) [1]
School districtNew York City Geographic District #18
PrincipalAngelo Marrah
Grades 9 to 12
Enrollment2,885 [2]  (2007–08)
Team nameThe Chiefs
[2]

Canarsie High School, which opened in 1964, is a defunct public high school in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie in New York City. Closed in 2011, the building currently operates as Canarsie Educational Campus, housing several smaller high schools. [3]

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Closing

Under the Impact Schools initiative in 2004, Canarsie High School received increased police and security presence. [4] In 2007, it was announced Canarsie would close because it "was in such disarray that the only way to fix it would be to shut it down, replacing it with several smaller schools on the same campus. The school had received the lowest possible grades (F and U) under the Department of Education's first citywide progress reports. [5] [6] [7] This was part of a trend in the city beginning in the 1990s and embraced by the administration of then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg to convert failing large high schools into educational campuses. [5] [8] For the 2007-2008 academic year, the school stopped admitting new students. [5] Canarsie High School graduated 40 percent of its final class of 358 students in the Spring of 2011. [1]

Student demographics

84.51% Black or African American, 11.47% Hispanic or Latino, 2.07% White non-Hispanic, 1.66% Asian and 0.28% Native American. The student/teacher ratio is 22.0. The school is part of School District #18.

Current schools

Three schools, High School for Innovation in Advertising and Media, High School for Medical Professions, and Urban Action Academy, are currently operating in the Canarsie campus. [3] [9]

Notable alumni

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Notes
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  2. 1 2 "Learning Environment Survey Report 2007-2008" (PDF). New York City Department of Education. "Enrollment: 2544"
  3. 1 2 "2016 New York City High School Directory" (PDF). schools.nyc.gov . New York City Department of Education. 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "A Look At The Impact Schools: A Drum Major Institute for Public Policy Data Brief June 2005" (PDF). prisonpolicy.org. Drum Major Institute. June 2005. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
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