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| Midwood High School | |
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2839 Bedford Ave , 11210 United States | |
| Coordinates | 40°37′58.2″N 73°57′06.9″W / 40.632833°N 73.951917°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | September 1940[1] |
| School district | New York City Department of Education |
| School code | K405 |
| NCES School ID | 360015302032[2] |
| Principal | Robert J. Quinlan |
| Teaching staff | 225.31 (on an FTE basis)[2] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 4,059 (2021-2022)[2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 18.02[2] |
| Campus | City: Large |
| Color(s) | Navy Blue and White |
| Mascot | Hornets |
| Newspaper | Argus |
| Yearbook | Epilog |
| Website | www |
Midwood High School is a high school located at 2839 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, administered by the New York City Department of Education. It has an enrollment of 3,938 students.[3] Its H-shaped building, with six Ionic columns and a Georgian cupola, was constructed in 1940 as part of the Works Projects Administration.
Academics
Ranking
Students from the two selective programs often attend top-ranked colleges, many on significant scholarships.[4] Typically, the school sends around 3% of its seniors to Ivy League colleges, and 10% of seniors to colleges such as New York University, Boston College, and Johns Hopkins University. The average SAT scores in Midwood High School (2015) were 530 Verbal, 610 Math, and 570 Writing.
The New York Times reported in 1986, that:
"Getting into Midwood High School ... is about as easy as getting into an Ivy League college. More than 12,000 eager eighth graders applied this year for 450 fall openings in Midwood's highly touted programs in the medical sciences and humanities."[5]
In the 1986–87 and 1997–98 school years, Midwood High School was recognized as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the United States Department of Education[6][7][8] and was chosen as a "School of Excellence" by U.S. News & World Report.
Population
As of the 2014–15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 3,785 students and 160.4 classroom teachers (on a full-time equivalent basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 23.6:1. There were 1,849 students (48.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 180 (4.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]
The school occupies a building designed to hold 2,800 students, with an enrollment nearly 1,000 larger. Renowned for its diversity, Midwood students are made up of about 37% Asians, 30% African-American, 24% Whites (Non-Hispanics), 7% Hispanic and 2% Native Americans and other races.
Classes are held in three overlapping sessions, with students arriving and departing at different times. Band practice starts at 8 a.m. and the first group of students breaks for lunch at 8:50 a.m. The large population of students creates a high demand for Advanced Placement classes, thus, high grades are required to be able to take up the classes. [9]
A new science annex, built across the streets from the original building, opened in the summer of 2008 to help ease the overcrowding problem. The building houses new science labs that replaced the antiquated labs in the original building. The annex also hosts a new library; the library in the original building is now split into two classrooms. The annex is connected to the southern end of the original building by a glass bridge that connects the second and third floors of the buildings.[10]
CUNY Brooklyn College partnership
Midwood High School is the affiliated campus high school of Brooklyn College, a partnership which began with the 1984–85 academic year. It was one of the earliest New York City public high schools to partner a four-year college in the City College of New York (CUNY) system.[11] The campus high school project reflects the college's continuing concern for strengthening public secondary education and building professional working relationships between its faculty and teachers in the city's schools. Its goal is to strengthen the preparation of Midwood High School students for college and expand the constituency from which those students are drawn.
In this partnership, Midwood High School remains under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Education. In matters of curriculum design, school organization and high school–college articulation, the president of Brooklyn College maintains contact with the chancellor of the New York City public schools, the High School Division of the Department of Education and the Midwood High School principal."[12] In addition, Students are able to take classes at Brooklyn College and other Colleges in the CUNY system, free of charge, through the College Now[13] program.[12] Through this program, students can obtain both high school and college credits.
Classes
Advanced Placement courses
Midwood offers 22 Advanced Placement courses, and the school's AP courses offerings have been listed by the College Board as among the best in the nation. A high percentage of the students sign up for the Advanced Placement exams, and score in the Upper Quartile. Due to a high demand by students to take AP courses, students are required to apply for AP classes in the spring and go through a competitive academic review process in order to be accepted into AP classes: [14]
- AP Art History (Starting Fall 2015)
- AP Biology
- AP Calculus AB
- AP Calculus BC
- AP Capstone
- AP Chemistry
- AP Computer Science A (Starting Fall 2015)
- AP English Literature
- AP English Language and Composition (Starting Fall 2014)
- AP Environmental Science
- AP European History
- AP Human Geography
- AP Macroeconomics
- AP Physics 1 (Starting Fall 2014)
- AP Physics 2 (Starting Fall 2015)
- AP Physics C: Mechanics
- AP Psychology
- AP Spanish
- AP Statistics
- AP U.S. Government & Politics
- AP United States History
- AP World History
Special programs
Midwood is composed of three institutes – Medical Science, Humanities, and Liberal Arts. Students are placed into classes specifically for their course. Placement in the Medical Science and Humanities Institutes is highly competitive and dependent upon strong academic performance. Students in either one of these institutes are required to take 6 terms of foreign language at Midwood High School, regardless of any acceleration credit from junior high school.
The Medical Science Institute (Med-Sci) is for students interested in science or the medical field along with mathematical interests. It requires 6 terms of science and 6 terms of math and 6 terms of a foreign language. As of 2011, incoming freshman of the Medical Science Institute must choose from three different tracks: Medical, the Research, or Engineering. The Science Research Program also has its own website.[15]
The Humanities Institute is for students interested in English language arts, literature, languages, and social studies. It requires two foreign languages, including 2 terms of Latin and 6 terms of another foreign language. Also, 8 terms of English, and 8 terms of social studies. The Humanities Institute is a challenging program that affords students the opportunity to learn about the world, its different societies and cultures. Students in this program are not required to take as many years of math and science as students in the Medical Science Program.
The Liberal Arts & Science Institute (formally called the Collegiate Program), serves students who reside in the geographical catchment area. Students in the program choose among four main areas of study: Law/Leadership/Community Service, Pre-engineering/Technology, Performing Arts and Communication/Media Arts. Students in this program with grades at 95 or above average may request to switch to either the medical science or humanities program.[16]
These are supported through the school's courtroom, robotics lab, chemistry lab, drama classrooms, and television studio.
Law department
Among the variety of courses taught at Midwood, the school has its own Law department, with a mock courtroom, housed on the 4th floor of the main building. Through the law department (under the guidance of the Social Studies department) students have the opportunity to take Criminal and Constitutional law courses, participate in We The People, and participate in Moot Court and Mock Trial competitions, in which the school works with select law firms throughout the city as they compete against other schools. Finally, through the department, students have the chance to take internships with the Kings County District Attorneys Office[17] or other law firms in the city.
Intel Science Talent Search Competition
Midwood has two classes that specialize in introducing students to scientific research, culminating in the creation of projects for the Intel Science Talent Search (formerly the Westinghouse Intel Science Talent Search). In 1999, Midwood had the most semifinalists in the Intel STS and Siemens-Westinghouse Science & Technology Competition of any school in the country. The following year the school tied for first place in STS.
Secondary schools of finalists and semi-finalists (1999-2015)[18]
| Semifinalists by School Each Year (1999-2015) | |||||||||||||||||
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| School | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| Monta Vista | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Gunn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Lynbrook | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Harker | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 15 |
| Greenwich | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| IMSA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Montgomery Blair | 11 | 13 | 10 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 12 |
| Bergen County Academies | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| Byram Hills | 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 |
| John F. Kennedy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Bronx Science | 9 | 8 | 17 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Midwood | 8 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ward Melville | 2 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Great Neck North | 3 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Great Neck South | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Jericho | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| Lawrence | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Midwood_High_School|