Bayside High School (Queens) Explained

Bayside High School
Address:32-24 Corp Kennedy St
Zipcode:11361
Country:United States
Established:March 16, 1936[1]
Schoolnumber:26Q495
Principal:Tracy Martinez
Enrollment:3,011 (2022-2023)
Teaching Staff:177.61
Ratio:16.95
Campus:City: Large
Motto:Anchored in Excellence
Mascot:Commodores
Colors:Blue and Orange
Newspaper:The Baysider
Yearbook:Triangle

Bayside High School is an American public high school located in the Bayside neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. It is administered by the New York City Department of Education.

Performance

Bayside is one of the Highest performing schools in the New York City Department of Education. Its students are admitted into six newly updated programs:[2] Digital Art & Design, Music Performance & Production, Environmental Engineering & Technology, Humanities & Non-Profit Management, Computer Programming & Web Design, and Sports Medicine & Management.[3] These programs offer students the opportunity to earn college credits,[2] participate in industry internships and learn more about careers in the field.[3]

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. Bayside High School has been recognized for "closing the achievement gap" for minority students, English language learners (ELL) and students with special needs.[4] The school offers their students to graduate early if they earn the proper amount of credits.

As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 3,025 students and 185.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.3:1. There were 2,049 students (67.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 159 (5.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

History

Bayside High School, Samuel J. Tilden High School, Abraham Lincoln High School, John Adams High School, Walton High School, Andrew Jackson High School, and Grover Cleveland High School were all built during the Great Depression from one set of blueprints, in order to save money. Bayside and Andrew Jackson HS were the final two schools to be completed.[5] [6] The design was based on Kirby Hall in Gretton, Northamptonshire, England. The schools were designed as small campuses to provide a "somewhat collegiate atmosphere".[7] The design of Bayside High School and the other schools, created by architect Walter C. Martin, was considered to be "a modern adaptation of the Adams, Lincoln, and Tilden High Schools", which had all been completed by 1929.[7] Bayside High School was also the first school building in the city to be constructed using Federal funds, built by the Public Works Administration from 1934 to 1936 at the cost of $2.5 million (equivalent to $ million in).[8]

Bayside opened its doors on March 16, 1936, taking in 2,300 students who had previously attended Flushing High School.[9]

In 1978 the Bayside High School music program, then under department chairman Sidney Lovett and teacher John Benza, was among the first secondary schools in the nation to purchase and teach music synthesis on a synthesizer, the Roland System 100.

Notable alumni

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Selby. Alexandra. Umpierrez. Amanda. Bayside's 75th. baruch.cuny.edu. The Baysider. February 2011. June 4, 2015.
  2. Web site: Bayside High School, Q495, Borough of Queens, Zip Code 11361 . Schools.nyc.gov . 2011-11-03 . 2015-05-14.
  3. Web site: Bayside-Douglaston, NY Patch | Local News, Community, Sports, Shopping, Restaurants, Things To Do . March 10, 2011 . Bayside.patch.com . 2015-05-14.
  4. Walcott, Dennis, M. Progress Report 2010-11. NYC Department of Education
  5. Web site: FEDERAL AID ASKED FOR 2 CITY WORKS; $2,500,000 Loan Sought for Construction of Bayside High School in Queens.. The New York Times. 4 June 2015. October 4, 1933.
  6. Web site: PLANS FOR 4 SCHOOLS APPROVED BY BOARD; New Buildings Will Provide Seats for 8,250 Children and Cost $2,500,000. The New York Times. 4 June 2015. September 26, 1935.
  7. News: New High Schools to Have Campuses; Architectural Plan of Jackson Building and Three Others to Be Collegiate in Style; Design is Modernistic; Besides Queens School, Two In the Bronx and One in Brooklyn Are to Be of This Type.. 2 August 2016. The New York Times. December 27, 1931.
  8. Web site: Tompkins. Richard. Program Speeded For New Schools; $25,000,000 of Construction With PWA Funds Will Be Under Way by Christmas.. The New York Times. 4 June 2015. October 13, 1935.
  9. Web site: Bayside School Opened; 2,300 Students at the $2,500,000 Institution Built by PWA.. The New York Times. 4 June 2015. March 17, 1936.
  10. https://web.archive.org/web/20150401224341/http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/pages/Eric.html Brooklyn's Borough President
  11. Mays, Jeffrey C. "Adrienne Adams Makes History as First Black N.Y.C. Council Speaker", The New York Times, January 5, 2022. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Ms. Adams and Mr. Adams were classmates at Bayside High School in Queens in the late 1970s. Mr. Adams, discouraged by an undetected learning disability, has spoken often about not being a model student. Ms. Adams, on the other hand, was a cheerleader who founded a gospel chorus at the high school, which was mostly white at the time."
  12. Hartocollis, Anemona. "COPING; From the Subway to the Stars", The New York Times, February 9, 2003. Accessed February 14, 2008. "There are exceptions, like the daughter of former Queens Borough President Claire Shulman, Ellen Baker, a physician-astronaut who was on the Bayside High School swim team and rode the shuttle Columbia in 1992."
  13. Harrigan, Susan (March 25, 2001) Castles Made of Sand. Brokers who rode fraud to riches now federal witnesses. siliconinvestor.com
  14. Zeichner, Naomi. "At Home With: Action Bronson", The Fader, November 30, 2011. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Action Bronson lives in the apartment he's lived in his whole life, at the southern edge of Flushing, Queens. Before he started rapping, Bronson dropped out of Bayside High School and cooked at his father's still-open Mediterranean restaurant in Forest Hills, which specializes in Albanian dishes like Jani me Fasule, a white bean stew."
  15. https://nypost.com/2015/06/14/from-ny-to-israel-analysts-longtime-friendship-with-david-blatt/ "From NY to Israel, analyst’s longtime friendship with David Blatt"
  16. Web site: CHY DAVIDSON. profootballarchives.com. July 23, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150723231744/http://www.profootballarchives.com/davi01200.html. July 23, 2015.
  17. Web site: American National Biography Online. www.anb.org. March 16, 2016.
  18. https://sbmatters.stonybrook.edu/assemblyman-steve-englebright-75-2/ "Q&A; Assemblyman Steve Englebright ’75"
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  20. Otterman, Sharon. "Obscuring a Muslim Name, and an American’s Sacrifice", The New York Times, January 1, 2012. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Despite this history, Mohammad Salman Hamdani is nowhere to be found in the long list of fallen first responders at the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan.... Mr. Hamdani attended Catholic school in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, until the eighth grade, and then played football for Bayside High School in Queens."
  21. Harvin, Al. "Football; Harmon Likes Seeing New York And Loves Playing in San Diego", The New York Times, November 23, 1991. Accessed May 19, 2008. "'I have to stay with my teammates out in New Jersey, but the first thing I'm going to do when I arrive is to head for Manhattan,' said Harmon, a consensus all-city football player at Bayside High School in Queens when the Commodores were a powerhouse in the late 1970s and early 1980s."
  22. Book: Sharpe-Young, Garry. Metal: The Definitive Guide : Heavy, NWOBH, Progressive, Thrash, Death, Black, Gothic, Doom, Nu. 2007. Jawbone Press. 978-1-906002-01-5. en.
  23. Jipsta - Chart history | Billboard. Billboard. February 19, 2020. June 13, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180613124359/https://www.billboard.com/artist/304736/jipsta/chart. dead.
  24. Glader, Sue. "Daymond John, Entrepreneur, Yale Center for Dyslexia. Accessed December 21, 2022. "The answer was Bayside High School’s co-op program, where students worked full-time one week and went to school the next."
  25. https://books.google.com/books?id=gqFMAQAAMAAJ&q=Jack+Sinagra+1950+emporia Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey

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