Flushing High School Explained

Flushing High School
Address:35-01 Union St
State:New York
Zipcode:11354
Country:United States
Principal:Jessica Lee
Schoolnumber:Q460
Enrollment:1,465 (2022–2023)
Teaching Staff:91.93
Ratio:15.94
Campus:City: Large
Nickname:Flushing, FHS
Mascot:Red Devils
Team Name:Flushing Red Devils/Lady Red Devils
Colors:Black, red and white
Yearbook:Gargoyle
Website:
Flushing High School
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Location:35-01 Union St
Queens, New York
Built:1912
Architect:Snyder C.B.J.
Architecture:Tudor Revival, Collegiate Gothic
Added:February 10, 1992
Refnum:91002036
Designated Other2 Name:New York City Landmark
Designated Other2 Date:January 18, 1991
Designated Other2 Abbr:NYCL
Designated Other2 Link:New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
Designated Other2 Number:1798
Designated Other2 Color:
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Flushing High School is a four-year public high school in Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education.

As of the 2020–21 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,414 students and 92.67 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.26:1. There were 1,173 students (83.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 64 (4.53% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

History

Flushing High School was established by the Village of Flushing in 1875 prior to its consolidation with New York City and is the oldest public high school in the city.[1] For decades, the school enjoyed a good reputation with local real estate sales brochures touting proximity to "famed Flushing High School" as late as the 1960s.[2] By the 1980s, the student body ceased to be drawn from the local Jewish and Asian population. As of the 2010s, the school remained generally low-performing. In an attempt to improve conditions, the entire staff had to reapply for their positions in 2017.[3] Since then, graduation rates have increased from 63% in 2017[4] to 83% in 2021.[5]

Flushing High School was originally located on the northeast corner of Union Street and Sanford Avenue.[6] It is currently located on Northern Boulevard, and housed in a distinctive Collegiate Gothic style building featuring turrets and gargoyles. It was built from 1912 to 1915, with another wing added in 1954. The WPA's Federal Art Project funded James Penney [7] to paint four murals which were installed in 1938.[8]

The building was designated as a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1991.[1] [9] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Notable alumni

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.queenshistoricalsociety.org/freedom.html Freedom Mile - Site 7
  2. Book: Linden Towers. 1958. Columbia University Library Real Estate Brochure Collection.
  3. News: DOE to shake up Flushing High School. Queen Chronicle. October 26, 2017.
  4. Web site: FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE DATA 4 Year Outcome as of August. NYSED Data. 7 March 2022.
  5. Web site: FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE DATA 4 Year Outcome as of August 2021. NYSED Data. 7 March 2022.
  6. Book: Map of Flushing, Queens. 1903. Sanborn Map Co..
  7. Web site: Oral History Interview with James Penney Archives of American Art. August 21, 1981. Archives of American Art.
  8. Web site: Flushing High School Murals - Flushing NY | Living New Deal. September 11, 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140912030111/http://livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu/projects/flushing-high-school-murals-flushing-ny/. September 12, 2014.
  9. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Flushing High School. September 1991. January 16, 2011. John A. Bonafide. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. See also: Web site: Accompanying 13 photos.
  10. Schwartz, Paul. "Giants’ pick Bromley found success, hope after dark past", New York Post, May 25, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2019. "'I remember, he didn’t meet his father until he was 17 years old,' said Jim DeSantis, Bromley’s football coach at Flushing High School."
  11. Berkvist, Robert. "Jerry Bock, Fiddler on the Roof Composer, Dies at 81", The New York Times, November 3, 2010. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Jerrold Lewis Bock was born on Nov. 23, 1928, in New Haven, the only child of George Bock, a salesman, and the former Peggy Alpert. He grew up in Flushing, Queens, where he wrote his first musical, My Dream, while still in Flushing High School."
  12. http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/html/ymca/ygny0023x1.phtml YMCA of Greater New York, Flushing Branch
  13. https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/reverend-dr-calvin-o-butts Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts
  14. https://aaregistry.org/story/unique-stage-and-screen-talents-godfrey-cambridge/ Unique stage and screen talents, Godfrey Cambridge
  15. [Dana Stevens (critic)|Stevens, Dana]
  16. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65626592/the-news-journal/ "Costa named Cheyney coach"
  17. https://vucommodores.com/eddie-fogler-recalls-his-career/ Eddie Fogler recalls his career
  18. https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/hk739sp3201/GertnerN_Transcript.pdf Nancy Gertner Interview Transcript
  19. https://lennylipton.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/m-y-life-at-popular-photography/ "My Life At Popular Photography"
  20. Larson, John. "Under Twenty", Courier News, March 9, 1962. Accessed December 20, 2020. "George Maharis didn't start out to become an actor. His interests led more to a singing career, simply because he loved to sing. At Flushing High School he had often sung in the assembly and fellow students remember him as a fine singer."
  21. Boyce, Heather Karlie. Paul Meltsner, Papillon Gallery. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Paul Raphael Meltsner was born in New York City in 1905. A native New Yorker Mr. Meltsner attended Flushing High School and graduated in 1922."
  22. [William Grimes (journalist)|Grimes, William]
  23. Cost, Jud. "Q&A With Andy Shernoff", Magnet (magazine), November 14, 2011. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Then my parents moved a few miles down the road to Whitestone, Queens, where I went to Flushing High School."
  24. News: Backyard Style Accounts for New High Jump Record. Eugene Register-Guard. February 9, 1931. June 19, 2013.
  25. Jacobson, Mark. "The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll A new generation of conspiracy theorists is at work on a secret history of New York’s most terrible day.", New York magazine, March 27, 2006. Accessed September 5, 2019. "September 11 was the true face of corporatized terror, said Tarpley, graduate of Flushing High School, class of 1962 (also Princeton), and author of an 'unauthorized' biography of George Herbert Walker Bush."
  26. https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss150_bioghist.html Mary van Kleeck Papers, 1849-1998: Biographical Note
  27. Winzelberg, David. "They're Over the Hill, but Still on the Field", The New York Times, April 5, 1998. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Unlike most players in the league, Dave Von Ohlen never left the game. One of a handful of former professional ballplayers in the senior league, Von Ohlen, a pitcher, was signed out of Flushing High School by the New York Mets in 1976."
  28. [Neil Lewis (journalist)|Lewis, Neil A.]

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