City Honors School

City Honors School

City Honors School at Fosdick-Masten Park, known colloquially as City Honors, or CHS, is a college preparatory school in Buffalo, New York. City Honors is part of the Buffalo Public Schools system. The school was founded in 1975 by three faculty members from Bennett High School and Clinton Junior High for academically gifted and talented high school students. In 1975, it was born as a school-within-a-school program and in one year it became a school of its own. It is located in the historic Fosdick-Masten Park High School, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Today, the school thrives with curriculum including Advanced Placement & International Baccalaureate courses as well as Regents courses required by New York State Education Department. Currently 885 students from grades 5-12 attend the school.

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