Education
Long Island City is served by the New York City Department of Education.
Long Island City is zoned to:
- P.S. 17 Henry David Thoreau School
- P.S. 70
- P.S. 76 William Hallet School
- P.S. 78
- P.S. 85 Judge Charles Vallone
- P.S. 111 Jacob Blackwell School
- P.S. 150
- P.S. 166 Henry Gradstein School
- P.S. 171 Peter G. Van Alst School
- P.S. 199 Maurice A. Fitzgerald School
- I.S. 10 H. Greeley School
- I.S. 141 The Steinway School
- I.S. 204 Oliver W. Holmes
- I.S. 126 Albert Shanker School For Visual And Performing Arts
A 7-12 school called Baccalaureate School for Global Education is in LIC.
Long Island City is also the location of the Queens Paideia School, an independent progressive school that offers personalized learning and group activities for its mixed-age student body, K-8.
Long Island City is home to numerous high schools, a number of which offer specializations, as indicated below. These specialized schools are not to be confused with SHSAT-based high schools. Rather, these schools offer programs that are included at SHSAT schools.
- Academy of American Studies (a history high school)
- Academy Careers of Television and Film (ACTvF)
- Academy of Finance and Enterprise
- Aviation Career and Technical High School
- Bard High School Early College II
- Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
- High School of Applied Communication
- Information Technology High School
- International High School At Laguardia
- Long Island City High School
- Middle College High School at LaGuardia Community College
- Newcomers High School - Academy for New Americans
- Queens Vocational and Technical High School
- Robert F. Wagner Jr. Institute For Arts & Technology
- William Cullen Bryant High School
Numerous institutions of higher education have (or have had) a presence in Long Island City.
- Briarcliffe College, has a campus on Thomson Avenue
- City University of New York School of Law at 2 Court Square
- Columbia University's Depression Project is located at 3718 34th Street
- DeVry University - New York Metro (also known as DeVry College of New York), maintained headquarters at 3020 Thomson Avenue until March 2011, at which time New York Metro's main campus relocated to 180 Madison Avenue in Manhattan and DCNY relocated its Queens presence to 99-21 Queens Boulevard in Rego Park
- LaGuardia Community College, at 3110 Thomson Avenue
- Middle College National Consortium is located at 2728 Thomson Avenue, #331
- Touro College, at 2511 49th Ave
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls’ Nourishment.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
“The Supreme Court would have pleased me more if they had concerned themselves about enforcing the compulsory education provisions for Negroes in the South as is done for white children. The next ten years would be better spent in appointing truant officers and looking after conditions in the homes from which the children come. Use to the limit what we already have.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)