This afternoon, the DOE announced that 26 schools will take occupancy on 22 new or improved sites in Sept. 2009, including six entirely new school buildings. Part of the Mayor's $13 billion, 5-year capital plan, these new, expanded and relocated schools will add more than 14,000 seats for New York City students.
Not all of the new spaces have school programs assigned to them yet, but for those that do, schools range from elementary to high schools and include traditional schools and charters. Many are young schools that 'incubated' at other school sites and are now ready to move to a permanent location.
Among the brand-new schools are a new selective high school, the Cinema School, slated for the Bronx -- and a 1500-seat high school in Sunset Park that is the first large high school to open in the Bloomberg-Klein era. More information, organized by district, can be found here.
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