Boys and Girls High School

For the predecessor schools, see Girls' High School and Boys High School.

Public high school in Brooklyn, New York, United States

Boys and Girls High School

Address

1700 Fulton Street

Brooklyn

New York

United States

Coordinates| 40°40′44.4″N 73°55′53.4″W﻿ / ﻿40.679000°N 73.931500°W﻿ / 40.679000; -73.931500
Information
Type| Public high school
Established| 1975
School board| New York City Public Schools
School number| K455
Principal| Grecian Harrison
Faculty| 43.0 FTEs[1]
Grades| 9–12
Enrollment| 452 (as of 2023–24)[1]
Student to teacher ratio| 15.0:1[1]
Color(s)| Red, white and black
Mascot| Kangaroo
Website| boysandgirlshs.org

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.[2]

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.[1]

## History

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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.[3] 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.[4]

From 1986 until 2004, the school's principal was Frank Mickens, who dealt with the school's many problems during the 1980s, and turned 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;[5][6] 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

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Shirley Chisholm

* Isaac Asimov (Isaak Yudovich Ozimov), writer[7]
* Fabolous, Rapper
* Jules Bender, basketball player
* Albert Blaustein (1921–1994), civil rights and human rights lawyer and constitutional consultant who helped draft the Fijian and Liberian constitutions.[8]
* Emanuel Celler, Congressman
* Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman, presidential candidate
* Ray Copeland, jazz trumpeter
* Aaron Copland, composer
* Tommy Davis, baseball and basketball player[9]
* Norma Donaldson, actress, singer.[citation needed]
* Ronnie Dyson, singer
* Connie Hawkins, basketball player
* Rita Hayworth, actress
* Lena Horne, singer, actress
* Edward Everett Horton, stage and film actor / comedian, later television voice work (not graduated, later transferred to the Baltimore City College [all-boys public high school] in Baltimore, Maryland)
* Duke Jordan, jazz pianist
* Alan King, actor and comedian
* Morris Lapidus, architect
* Norman Mailer, author
* Mickey Marcus, attorney and soldier
* Sean Michaels, adult film actor and director
* Jean Nidetch, businesswoman
* Cecil Payne, jazz saxophonist
* Man Ray, avant-garde artist, photographer
* Dwayne "Pearl" Washington, basketball player
* Randy Weston, jazz pianist
* Irving Thalberg, movie producer
* John C. Whitehead, Artist / politician
* Lenny Wilkens, basketball player
* Dom Zanni, baseball player[9]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d School data for Boys And Girls High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
2. ^ Mooney, Jake (2008-11-28). "A Second Chance for Students Left Behind". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
3. ^ "19th Century", NYC Department of Education.
4. ^ "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
5. ^ Libby Nelson, New York Times July 10, 2009
6. ^ Neil A. Lewis, "A Tough Principal Turns a School Around" New York Times April 6, 1989
7. ^ Asimov, Isaac (1973). The Early Asimov Volume 1. St. Albans, UK: Panther Books. p. 10\. ISBN 058603806X.
8. ^ Perez-Pena, Richard. "Albert Blaustein, Who Drafted Nations' Constitutions, Dies at 72", The New York Times, August 22, 1994. Accessed August 9, 2019. "Albert P. Blaustein, a law professor who dedicated nearly three decades of his life to drafting constitutions for nations in transition, died yesterday at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., after suffering a heart attack.... Born on Oct. 12, 1921, in Brooklyn, Mr. Blaustein graduated from Boys High School at age 16."
9. ^ a b "Boys and Girls (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. Retrieved February 14, 2011.[permanent dead link]

## External links

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* Original building site construction
* Profile in New York Times
* Football 1997 Championship
* Boys & Girls headman Frank Mickens calls it quits after 18 years at school

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