Canarsie High School 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.
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Closing
Under the Impact Schools initiative in 2004, Canarsie High School received increased police and security presence. 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. 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. For the 2007-2008 academic year, the school stopped admitting new students. Canarise High School graduated 40 percent of its final class of 358 students in the Spring of 2011.
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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.
Notable alumni
- Mark "Prince Markie Dee" Morales, rapper (The Fat Boys and solo), producer, songwriter,radio personality, actor
- "Karl Kani", fashion designer
- Arlie Petters, mathematical physicist
- Warren Cuccurullo, pop and rock guitarist
- World B. Free, NBA basketball player
- Geoff Huston-NBA player
- Dan Morogiello, major league baseball player
- John "Spider" Salley, NBA basketball player and talk show host
- Howard Schultz, current Chairman and CEO of Starbucks Corporation.
- Curtis Sliwa, Guardian Angels founder and radio talk show host
- Stuart Sternberg, owner of the Tampa Bay Rays
- Leon Williams NFL player
- Lance Schulters NFL player
- Jermaine Miles NFL player
- Ill Bill, Hip-Hop artist from Canarsie
- Taxstone, podcast host and Twitter personality
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