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Townsend Harris High
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BY MELISSA PLATA
It’s no wonder that Townsend Harris High School received the
most applications for 2007-2008 from eighth grade students as
their top choice. The Townsend Harris approach pays off, said
Assistant Principal of Pupil and Personnel Services Nancy
Solomon. “They appreciate it much more after they’ve gone” off
to college. Acceptance statistics are high almost 70-percent.
Most students are required to attend science and humanities
Advanced Placement classes or college-level biology, physics,
and chemistry at Queens College. The Townsend curriculum
introduces the college experience as soon as possible to
students.
Most seniors, who are mostly girls, graduate with at least 12
credits to apply to their bachelor’s degrees, and all students
are required to complete a community service requirement each
year.
Coursework at Townsend Harris is impressive, and all
honors-level. Most students complete 12 projects a year, which
are a choice of multi-media presentations, sculptures or written
reports in addition to their regular class work.
The school year is peppered with frequent quizzes and exams.
Also, this is one of the only public schools in the area that
students are expected to abide by a strict dress code.
As the public school education in New York continues to be
overcrowded and in need of improvement, Townsend Harris strives
to defeat the odds by expecting and preparing students to attend
collage.
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