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Boys and Girls High School

{{Short description|Public school in New York City}}

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{{For|the predecessor schools|Girls' High School|Boys High School (Brooklyn){{!}}Boys High School}}

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| name = Boys and Girls High School

| image = Girls HS Nostrand Av jeh.jpg

| logo =

| motto =

| established = 1975

| type = Public high school

| principal = Grecian Harrison

| founder =

| enrollment = 452 (as of 2023–24)

| faculty = 43.0 FTEs

| ratio = 15.0:1

| mascot = Kangaroo

| colors = Red, white, and black
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| address = 1700 Fulton Street

| city = Brooklyn

| state = New York

| country = United States

| website = {{URL|boysandgirlshs.org}}

| grades = 9–12

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| schoolnumber = K455

| schoolboard = New York City Public Schools

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| coordinates = {{coord|40|40|44.4|N|73|55|53.4|W|display=inline,title|type:edu_region:US-NY}}

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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.{{Cite news |last=Mooney |first=Jake |date=2008-11-28 |title=A Second Chance for Students Left Behind |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/nyregion/thecity/30disp.html |access-date=2023-12-06 |issn=0362-4331}}

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.[http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3600094&ID=360009401921 School data for Boys And Girls High School], National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.

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.[http://schools.nyc.gov/community/facilities/PublicArt/Architecture/19thCentury/default.htm "19th Century"], NYC Department of Education. 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."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

From 1986 until 2004, the school's principal was Frank Mickens, who dealt with the school's many problems during the 1980s, and turned it 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;Libby Nelson, [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/nyregion/11principal.html New York Times] July 10, 2009Neil A. Lewis, [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/06/nyregion/a-tough-principal-turns-a-school-around.html?scp=6&sq=Boys%20and%20Girls%20High%20School%20Bedford&st=cse "A Tough Principal Turns a School Around"] New York Times April 6, 1989 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.

Noted alumni

{{Alumni|date=December 2010}}

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References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20101128231604/http://nycago.org/Organs/Bkln/html/BoysHighSchool.html Original building site construction]
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/nyregion/11principal.html Profile in New York Times]
  • [http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/revenge-sweet-boys-amp-girls-article-1.785500 Football 1997 Championship]
  • [http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/high-school/boys-girls-headman-frank-mickens-calls-quits-18-years-school-article-1.427095 Boys & Girls headman Frank Mickens calls it quits after 18 years at school]

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Category:Public high schools in Brooklyn

Category:Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn