Millennium High School (New York City)

Not to be confused with Millennium Art Academy.
Millennium High School
Address
75 Broad Street, 13th floor, New York, NY, 10004
New York, New York
United States
Coordinates 40°42′17″N 74°00′41″W / 40.704606°N 74.011444°W / 40.704606; -74.011444Coordinates: 40°42′17″N 74°00′41″W / 40.704606°N 74.011444°W / 40.704606; -74.011444
Information
Type Public secondary
Established 2002
Founder Robert Rhodes
School number M418
CEEB code 333798
Principal Colin McEvoy
Faculty 40
Grades 9 to 12
Enrollment approx. 630
Student to teacher ratio 17:1
Colour(s)          Black and Red
Athletics conference PSAL
Mascot The Phoenix
Website http://www.millenniumhs.org

Millennium High School is a selective public high school for grades 9 through 12 in Manhattan. It is operated by the New York City Department of Education in Region 9 and is ranked 77th within New York State and 688th nationwide.[1]

The Phoenix is the school's mascot, meant to symbolize the school rising from the ashes of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks.

History

Millennium High School was founded in 2002 with a $500,000 grant from New Visions for Public Schools with money donated from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Open Society Institute. Community Board 1 raised $12 million to build the school. The space within the building was made possible with several million dollars worth of grants from the federal government in 2003, as well as contributions from concerned groups such as New Visions for Public Schools, in an attempt to revitalize the lower Manhattan area following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Campus

The school occupies the 11th, 12th, and 13th floors of the former ITT building, in Manhattan's Financial District at its southern tip.[2] The interior is modern, colorful, open, and well-lit. The design uses large rooms and gathering spaces more often than corridors and sealed doors, because of its location in an office building.

Academics

Millennium offers a rigorous schedule, though as a small school, the Advanced Placement courses are few: AP English (language and literature), AP United States History, AP Studio Art, AP World History, AP Biology, and AP Calculus. Other advanced courses are offered in chemistry and physics. The school has a partnership with the YMCA of Greater New York, and provides numerous extracurricular offerings, sports organizations, and other activities for the students.

Faculty

Former principal Robert Rhodes has long been a public school teacher and administrator. He received Clark University's Secondary Educator of the Year award in 2003. He announced on February 16, 2012 that he would step down from his position after June 2012 to become principal at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, NY.[3] The staff of Millennium High School all have master's degrees and have attended colleges and universities including: NYU, Dartmouth, University of Connecticut, Stanford, Barnard, University of Rochester, Bucknell, Columbia, Michigan, Haverford, MIT, Indiana, Connecticut College, The Ohio State University, Cornell, Rutgers, Wellesley, Skidmore, Wisconsin, UMass, Tufts, and Duke. Many have been recipients of highly competitive grants and have studied around the world.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-york/districts/new-york-city-public-schools/millennium-high-school-13103
  2. ↑ http://insideschools.org/high/browse/school/69
  3. ↑ Brian, Marschhauser. "Chappaqua Superintendent Chooses Next Horace Greeley Principa". the daily chappaqua. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
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