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The Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design

 
257 North 6 Street Brooklyn, NY 11211
Phone: (718) 388-1260  Fax: (718) 486-2580
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Principal: Gil Cornell
Parent Coordinator: Lai Sin Chu x 208

WHAT'S SPECIAL: Students get instruction in architecture beginning their freshman year, continuing through 12th grade.
DOWNSIDE: No music program; no foreign language offered until 10th grade.
 
Grade levels: 9 to 12
Class size: 25
Enrollment: 391
Ethnicity %:
  4 W; 58 B; 36 H; 3 A
District 14
HS Supt: Linda Waite
Admissions: citywide
Neighborhood: Williamsburg
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Most city high schools offering instruction in architecture don't make it available it until students' junior year, but at the Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, students dive into the subject as freshmen. They start off learning how to draw with tools like t-squares, and by the time they graduate, will have had mastered sophisticated computer design programs widely used by professional architects.

 

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(school staff)
Nov 17, 2009

1) There is a new principal, Gill Cornell (as of March 2009). 2) There is a new Parent Coodinator, Lai Sin Chu. 3) Students now take foreign language starting in 9th grade. 4) We offer a wide... read more

(student)
Jan 3, 2009

"Ok most people here keep saying that our school is horrible. While it does suffer quite a few setbacks, its really the students that make the school what it is. We have a bunch of people that... read more

(student)
Nov 8, 2008

"i got a friend that go to this school and she says that it's 1 of the worst schools she's went to in her life , that statement alone says a lot ......."



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