DOE Officials Mark Total Of 47 Schools For Closure

By: NY1 News
The list of struggling city public schools facing possible closure has more than doubled to 47.
The Department of Education has just added 28 new names to the list, including 15 additional high schools, six additional middle schools and seven charter schools.

Most of the new additions are in the Bronx.

That number comes on top of the 20 struggling elementary and middle schools that were slated for closure in September.

Last school year, DOE officials also considered closing 47 schools. Of those schools, one in the Bronx and four in Brooklyn are once again on the chopping block this year.  

47 Schools Facing Closure
Manhattan: 9 Schools
Legacy School For Integrated Studies (High school)
Washington Irving High School
High School Of Graphic Communication Arts
Manhattan Theatre Lab High School
Wadleigh Secondary School For The Performing & Visual Arts
Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School (Middle school)
Future Leaders Institute Charter School (Charter)
Opportunity Charter School (Charter)
P.S. 137 John L. Bernstein* (Elementary school)

Bronx: 13 Schools
Samuel Gompers Career And Technical Education High School
Gateway School For Environment Research and Technology (High school)
Herbert H. Lehman High School
Jane Addams High School For Academic Careers
Fordham Leadership Academy For Business and Technology (High school)
Grace Dodge Career And Technical Education High School
Academy For Scholarship And Entrepreneurship (Secondary school)
P.S. 277* (Elementary school)
New Millennium Business Academy Middle School*
M.S. 142 John Philip Sousa*
Aspire Preparatory Middle School*
Academic Leadership Charter School (Charter)
Bronx Academy of Promise (Charter)

Brooklyn: 20 Schools
Academy Of Business And Community Development (Secondary school)
Freedom Academy High School
Juan Morel Campos Secondary School
Frederick Douglass Academy IV (Secondary school)
International Arts Business School (High school)
Cypress Hills Collegiate Preparatory School (High school)
Brooklyn Collegiate: A College Board School (Secondary school)
Satellite Three* (Middle school)
P.S. 256 Benjamin Banneker* (Elementary school)
Knowledge And Power Preparatory Academy VII* (Middle school)
P.S. 019 Roberto Clemente* (Elementary school)
P.S. 022* (Elementary school)
P.S. 161 The Crown School for Law and Journalism* (K-8)
Middle School For The Arts*
I.S. 171 Abraham Lincoln* (Middle school)
P.S. 298 Dr. Betty Shabazz* (K-8)
General D. Chappie James Elementary*
General D. Chappie James Middle School*
J.H.S. 296 The Halsey School* (Middle school)
Williamsburg Charter School (Charter)

Queens: 4 Schools
Law, Government And Community Service High School
P.S. 215 Lucretia Mott* (Elementary school)
P.S. 181 Brookfield* (Elementary school)
Peninsula Preparatory Academy (Charter)

Staten Island: 1 School
P.S. 014 Cornelius Vanderbilt* (Elementary school)

*Schools marked for closure in September