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Canarsie High School

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Canarsie High School

Location

1600 Rockaway Parkway Brooklyn, New York 11236 United States
Coordinates	40°38′26″N 73°53′53″W / 40.64056°N 73.89806°W / 40.64056; -73.89806
Information
Type	Public
Established	1964
Closed	2011 (reopened as Canarsie Educational Campus)^[2]
School district	New York City Geographic District #18
Principal	Angelo Marrah
Grades	9 to 12
Enrollment	2,885^[1] (2007–08)
Team name	The Chiefs
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Canarsie High School, which opened in 1964, is a defunct public high school in the Brooklyn neighborhood of CanarsieinNew York City. Closed in 2011, the building currently operates as Canarsie Educational Campus, housing several smaller high schools.^[3]

Closing

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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.^[2]

Student demographics

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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

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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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Ill Bill, Hip-Hop artist from Canarsie
Warren Cuccurullo, pop and rock guitarist^[10]
Mark "Prince Markie Dee" Morales, rapper (The Fat Boys and solo), producer, songwriter,radio personality, actor
World B. Free, NBA basketball player^[11]
Alan Edelman, mathematician, computer scientist, co-creator of the Julia programming language
Geoff Huston-NBA player
Randy Katz, computer scientist
Karl Kani, fashion designer
Dan Morogiello, major league baseball player^[12]
Arlie Petters, mathematical physicist
John "Spider" Salley, NBA basketball player and talk show host^[10]
Lance Schulters NFL player
Howard Schultz, Chairman and CEO of Starbucks Corporation and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics.
Curtis Sliwa, Guardian Angels founder and radio talk show host, 2021 mayoral candidate for New York City^[13]
Stuart Sternberg, owner of the Tampa Bay Rays^[14]
Clarence Taylor
Taxstone, podcast host and Twitter personality
Leon Williams, NFL player
Evan Seinfield, actor, singer

References

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Notes

^ ^a ^b "Learning Environment Survey Report 2007-2008" (PDF). New York City Department of Education. "Enrollment: 2544"

^ ^a ^b Phillips, Anna M. (February 2, 2012). "SCHOOLBOOK; Report Assesses Final Year at Closing Schools". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 October 2015.

^ ^a ^b "2016 New York City High School Directory" (PDF). schools.nyc.gov. New York City Department of Education. 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015.

^ "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.

^ ^a ^b ^c Medina, Jennifer (December 24, 2007). "At Canarsie High, Now Marked for Closing, Loyalty Prevails". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 October 2015.

^ Monahan, Rachel (December 5, 2007). "Canarsie High School to offer new classes, tougher discipline code". Daily News (New York). Retrieved 13 October 2015.

^ Friedman, Neil S. (December 13, 2007). "Canarsie High School Will Be "Phased Out" In 2008". Canarsie Courier. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.

^ Holloway, Lynette (May 16, 2001). "A Small Strategy for Troubled Giants". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2015.

^ Elliott, Stuart (June 17, 2012). "The First Graduates From Advertising High". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 October 2015.

^ ^a ^b Esposito, Diana (June 12, 2003). "Canarsie Once Home To Several Who Attained Fame & Fortune". Canarsie Courier. Archived from the original on January 19, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2008.

^ Gutierrez, Paul (May 8, 1999). "World B. Free, Nba Gunner". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved October 27, 2008.

^ "Canarsie (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. Retrieved February 14, 2011.

^ "He bosses a band of angels". Brooklyn Eagle. March 26, 2012.

^ Hau, Louis; Barancik, Scott; Topkin, Marc (January 30, 2004). "Rays buyer: financial whiz who loves baseball". St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved October 27, 2008.