Benjamin N. Cardozo High School

Benjamin N. Cardozo High School is a public high school in Bayside, Queens a borough of New York City, USA. The school is named for Benjamin N. Cardozo, who served as chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals and then as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Like all New York City public schools, Cardozo High School is operated by the New York City Department of Education. It is generally referred to simply as "Cardozo," or just "'dozo" by the students.

Is rated it among the best public high schools in the city and in 1998, Newsweek magazine rated it one of the top 100 schools in the United States. PDF (744 KiB)

True to its namesake, the school is known for its Mentor Law and Humanities program, offering classes in such subjects as contract law as well as a legal internship course. In addition, the school's DaVinci Research program provides students an emphasis on science and mathematics, and the Performing Dance program, for which students are selected through an audition process, provides instruction in many different forms of dance with an emphasis on performance.

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 4,042 students and 189.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 21.4.