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:
“Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment. The system of universal education is in our age the most prominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the people the center of the day’s demonstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and temperament, after all. He may have to be born again many times. I have known many a man who pretended to be a Christian, in whom it was ridiculous, for he had no genius for it. It is not every man who can be a free man, even.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)