History
When Eastern District closed as a result of low graduation rates and violence, four schools opened in the building's place: The High School of Enterprise, Business, and Technology, The School for Legal Studies, Progress High School for Professional Careers and a fourth school that was closed by the fall of 1999. The schools combined formed "The Grand Street Campus".
EBT, as it is known by the students and faculty, and the other schools were the first schools born into the SURR (Schools Under Registration Review) List. In the spring of 2000, a year after graduating its first senior class, the school was first in the campus to pass off the list.
The founder of EBT is Juan S. Mendez. He was the deputy chair of the foreign language at Stuyvesant High School before opening EBT with the help of Jane Wharton and Hipolito Fernandez who currently function as assistant principals at EBT.
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