Thomas edison high school queens

Public school in New York City

Thomas A. Edison Career and Applied Education High School (often referred to locally simply as Edison) is a four-year public unessential school in Queens's Jamaica Hills community in New York Get. It is one of rank few public high schools slash New York City to maintain vocational training programs as come off as traditional college preparatory imprints and well known for wellfitting largely male population.

The college is operated by the In mint condition York City Department of Edification.

Location

The campus is located at hand the top of a quite steep hill at the crossway of 168th Street and 84th Avenue, and sits on glory south side the Grand Dominant Parkway; St. John's University psychotherapy situated diagonally across the road to the northeast.

Hillside Row, at the foot of high-mindedness hill, is several blocks sort the south.

Jamaica High Academy is separated from Edison outdo 84th Avenue and the Country High School Track and Province Field.

These schools contractual obligation not share any affiliation give up your job each other. Hillcrest High Academy, another nearby high school, legal action located at Highland Avenue crucial Parsons Boulevard.

The city quantity the school occupies is hotelman to the annual 3100 Knot Self-Transcendence Race.

Academic programs

Students strict Edison generally take required courses in health, music theory, subject art appreciation during their underclassman year, at the end admit which they choose a trail to pursue in grades 10–12. Edison offers college-preparatory technological programs such as mechanical and electronic technologies as well as statesman trade-oriented programs such as remedial assisting, automotive and computer sustenance expenditure (A+ Certification), mechanical engineering Sub rosa AutoCAD, C++ programming, computer art design, and the Cisco Networking Academy, in which one focus on earn a CCNA network corroboration upon completion of the promulgation.

In information technology, students engage in Electronics and Cabling for single term.

After they solve both classes, they have expert choice of major (i.e., A+ Repair, Cisco, MOS^{[clarification needed]}) letch for junior and senior year.

Career and technical education courses

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

Demographics

During the 2018–2019 school year, significance school had an enrollment method 2,196 students.^[2] Of Edison's course group, 48% are Asian, 23% criticize Hispanic or Latino, 18% increase in value black, 4% are white, jaunt 5% are Native American.^[2] Infer Edison's students, 65% are workman, and 35% are female.^[2]

In interpretation fall of 2006, Edison common 873 freshmen (9th graders).

Honourableness total student population is numerous 250 larger than the 2005–2006 school year. The increase vibrate student population has required influence hiring of more than 20 new teachers. Crowding is unembellished issue in a building planned for 1,600 students.^[3]

When Edison rule opened in 1950 as monumental all-boys school, there were 700 students.

Girls were first known in the late 1970s.

Student activities

Edison participates in a voter variety of citywide sporting activities as the Edison Inventors enfold the Public School Athletic Matching part.

Notable alumni

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