Canarsie High School Explained

Canarsie High School
Location:	1600 Rockaway Parkway Brooklyn, New York
Zipcode:	11236
Country:	United States
Coordinates:	40.6406°N -73.8981°W
District:	New York City Geographic District #18
Principal:	Angelo Marrah
Enrollment:	2,885
Enrollment As Of:	2007–08
Type:	Public
Grades:	9 to 12
Team Name:	The Chiefs
Established:	1964
Closed:	2011 (reopened as Canarsie Educational Campus)^[1]
Footnotes:	^[2]

Canarsie High School, which opened in 1964, is a defunct public high school in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie in New York City. Closed in 2011, the building currently operates as Canarsie Educational Campus, housing several smaller high schools.^[3]

Closing

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.^[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.

Student demographics

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

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.^[9]

Notable alumni

• Ill Bill, Hip-Hop artist from Canarsie
• Warren Cuccurullo, pop and rock guitarist
• Mark "Prince Markie Dee" Morales, rapper (The Fat Boys and solo), producer, songwriter,radio personality, actor
• World B. Free, NBA basketball player^[10]
• 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^[11]
• Arlie Petters, mathematical physicist
• John "Spider" Salley, NBA basketball player and talk show host^[12]
• 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

Notes

Notes and References

1. Web site: Phillips. Anna M.. SCHOOLBOOK; Report Assesses Final Year at Closing Schools. The New York Times. 13 October 2015. February 2, 2012.
2. "Learning Environment Survey Report 2007-2008" (PDF). New York City Department of Education. "Enrollment: 2544"
3. Web site: 2016 New York City High School Directory. schools.nyc.gov. New York City Department of Education. 4 June 2015. 2015.
4. Web site: A Look At The Impact Schools: A Drum Major Institute for Public Policy Data Brief June 2005. prisonpolicy.org. Drum Major Institute. 13 October 2015. June 2005.
5. Web site: Medina. Jennifer. At Canarsie High, Now Marked for Closing, Loyalty Prevails. The New York Times. 13 October 2015. December 24, 2007.
6. Web site: Monahan. Rachel. Canarsie High School to offer new classes, tougher discipline code. Daily News (New York). 13 October 2015. December 5, 2007.
7. Web site: Friedman. Neil S.. Canarsie High School Will Be "Phased Out" In 2008. Canarsie Courier. 13 October 2015. December 13, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20150905225604/http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2007-12-13/OtherNews/005.html. 5 September 2015. dead.
8. Web site: Holloway. Lynette. A Small Strategy for Troubled Giants. The New York Times. 25 May 2015. May 16, 2001.
9. Web site: Elliott. Stuart. The First Graduates From Advertising High. The New York Times. 13 October 2015. June 17, 2012.
10. Paul . Gutierrez . World B. Free, Nba Gunner . . May 8, 1999 . October 27, 2008.
11. Web site: Canarsie (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball . The Baseball Cube . February 14, 2011.
12. News: Diana . Esposito . June 12, 2003 . Canarsie Once Home To Several Who Attained Fame & Fortune . https://archive.today/20130119011925/http://www.canarsiecourier.com/News/2003/0612/OtherNews/026.html . dead . January 19, 2013 . Canarsie Courier . October 27, 2008 .
13. News: March 26, 2012 . He bosses a band of angels . Brooklyn Eagle.
14. News: Louis . Hau . Scott . Barancik . Marc . Topkin . Rays buyer: financial whiz who loves baseball . . January 30, 2004 . October 27, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604194807/http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/30/Rays/Rays_buyer__financial.shtml . June 4, 2011.