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November 21, 2009

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James Baldwin School - A School for Expeditionary Learning
351 West 18 Street Manhattan, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 627-2812 Fax: (212) 627-9803 Website Map	Principal: Elijah Hawkes Parent Coordinator:
WHAT'S SPECIAL: A clone of the popular alternative school, Humanities Prep DOWNSIDE: Building needs repair

Grade levels: 9 to 12
Class size: 20
Enrollment: 249
Ethnicity %:
13 W; 42 B; 39 H; 5 A

4 year graduation rate: 65.2%

District 2
HS Supt: Elaine Gorman
Admissions: Unscreened/transfer
Neighborhood: Chelsea
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The James Baldwin School seeks to replicate Humanities Preparatory Academy, a small and popular alternative school that successfully prepares students for 4-year colleges. Like Humanities Prep, Baldwin is designed to serve both students who just graduated from 8th grade and older transfer students, many of whom have had difficulty elsewhere.

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Feb 23, 2007	Student Pri writes: "The teachers are really good and the teachers are like friends." (February 2007)
Nov 22, 2005	A student who transferred from a large high school in the Bronx said she preferred James Baldwin because "this is a smaller school where I can fit in better. It's easier to make friends here and... read more
Apr 13, 2005	The NYC Outward Bound program, a founding partner of James Baldwin, issued a press release about the opening of the school. It explains the "expeditionary learning" model as an "experience-based... read more

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