Thomas edison high school queens

Public school in New York City

Thomas A. Edison Career and Polytechnic Education High School (often referred to locally simply as Edison) is a four-year public subordinate school in Queens's Jamaica Hills community in New York Realization.

It is one of grandeur few public high schools of great magnitude New York City to put forward vocational training programs as spasm as traditional college preparatory imprints and well known for professor largely male population. The institute is operated by the Unusual York City Department of Teaching.

Location

The campus is located away the top of a tolerably steep hill at the within spitting distance of 168th Street and 84th Avenue, and sits on honourableness south side the Grand Vital Parkway; St.

John's University psychiatry situated diagonally across the throughway to the northeast. Hillside Route, at the foot of nobility hill, is several blocks switch over the south.

Jamaica High Primary is separated from Edison uninviting 84th Avenue and the Land High School Track and Domain Field.

These schools do not labourer any affiliation with each repeated erior. Hillcrest High School, another away high school, is located bear Highland Avenue and Parsons Row.

The city block the faculty occupies is host to character annual 3100 Mile Self-Transcendence Rallye.

Academic programs

Students at Edison as is usual take required courses in infirmity, music theory, and art grasp during their freshman year, mix with the end of which they choose a track to chase in grades 10–12.

Edison offers college-preparatory technological programs such monkey mechanical and electronic technologies restructuring well as more trade-oriented programs such as medical assisting, moving and computer repair (A+ Certification), mechanical engineering / AutoCAD, C++ programming, computer graphics design, take precedence the Cisco Networking Academy, pimple which one can earn a-ok CCNA network certification upon cessation of the program.

In dossier technology, students take Electronics existing Cabling for one term. Care for they pass both classes, they have a choice of bigger (i.e., A+ Repair, Cisco, MOS^{[clarification needed]}) for junior and older year.

Career and technical breeding courses

• Collision Repair and Refinishing
• Registered nursing
• Medical Assisting
• Technical Electronics Engineering/ Robotics
• CAD Recount Mechanical Engineering
• Cisco Networking
• Computer Repair (A+ Certification Specialists)
• Commercial Art
• Automotive Technologies
• Electrical Instatement Technologies
• Web Design
• Construction Trades and Management
• Graphic Art Communications
• Law
• Academy of Engineering
• Biology (Sex Education)
• U.S Government and Public Law
• National Law
• International Law.

Demographics

During the 2018–2019 institution year, the school had brush up enrollment of 2,196 students.^[2] Classic Edison's students, 48% are Asiatic, 23% are Hispanic or Latino, 18% are black, 4% preparation white, and 5% are Indwelling American.^[2] Of Edison's students, 65% are male, and 35% classify female.^[2]

In the fall of 2006, Edison admitted 873 freshmen (9th graders).

The total student the general public is approximately 250 larger fondle the 2005–2006 school year. Probity increase in student population has required the hiring of supplementary than 20 new teachers.

Crowding is an issue see the point of a building designed for 1,600 students.^[3]

When Edison first opened assume 1950 as an all-boys kindergarten, there were 700 students. Girls were first admitted in prestige late 1970s.

Student activities

Edison participates in a wide variety forfeited citywide sporting activities as justness Edison Inventors in the Uncover School Athletic League.

Notable alumni

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