The Brooklyn Latin School is a specialized high school in New York City, founded in 2006.
The ideals governing Brooklyn Latin are borrowed largely from the Boston Latin School, and popular society's Ideals. John Elwell, the school's founder, and Jason Griffiths, its headmaster, administer the school and monitor the school .
Since Brooklyn Latin is a specialized high school, one must pass the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) in order to be admitted to the school. It is the second specialized high school in Brooklyn (along with Brooklyn Technical High School) and has the distinction of being the only specialized high school in which students adhere to a school uniform. The school color, purple, reflects the preference of Roman nobility, who wore robes dyed in that color and is also the school color of the Boston Latin School, another borrowed trait.
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