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Richmond Hill High School was founded in 1899, one year after Queens became part of New York City, in the then-bucolic setting of Richmond Hill. As such, it is the oldest high school south of Jamaica Avenue in Queens, New York City. Its first principal was Isaac Newton Failor (1851 to 1925), author of the longtime school book "Inventional ...
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
John Bowne High School is a public high school located in Flushing, Queens, New York City, next to Queens College, City University of New York. It has an enrollment of nearly four thousand students. [1] The school, which opened in 1964, is named after the English immigrant John Bowne. John Bowne High School offers multiple programs including a ...
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This school is well known for athletics, especially its basketball teams. They have at least one mythical national championship for girls basketball in 2005. [2] The girls basketball team won eleven straight Class A A New York State Federation girls' title from 1990-2000. They also won Class AA titles in 2005, 2006, 2010 and 2019. [3]
The design for Andrew Jackson High School was released in 1931. [7] The plans for the school were approved by the New York City Board of Education on September 26, 1935. [8] Ground broke on the site, at 116th Avenue and what was then Cross Island Boulevard (now Francis Lewis Boulevard), on November 18, 1935. [3]
Beach Channel High School (BCHS) (also known as High School 410 or H.S. 410), was a high school in the public school system of New York City, located at 100-00 Beach Channel Drive in Rockaway Park in the borough of Queens. The school opened in 1973, grew to over 2,150 students by 2006, and closed in 2014.
The school has a 98.6% four-year graduation rate, the highest of any large open-admissions high school in the NYC DOE. The school has pioneered Whole Child Guidance practices and is further improving curriculum through the additions of internships and of numerous college-accredited courses.