The Department of Education announced Friday that it plans to close seven more schools for poor performance, including two Bronx vocational schools, Samuel Gompers Career and Technical High School and Grace Dodge Career and Technical High School and one large Manhattan high school, Washington Irving. The announcement brings to 19 the number of closures announced this week. Pending approval by the Panel on Education Policy, the schools will not accept new students, although current students will be allowed to stay until graduation. New schools, with new leadership and new staff, will be housed in the old buildings.

About 16 low-performing schools were saved from the ax, including Lehman High School in the Bronx and the High School for Graphic Communication Arts. Although these schools were threatened with being closed, the Department of Education has decided to develop what it calls a “targeted action plan” to improve them instead.

The DOE also announced that it would eliminate certain grades at some schools—rather than closing them. Parents had protested the threatened closure of Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts and the DOE decided to “truncate” — eliminate the middle school grades— at the school instead.

The DOE plans must be approved by the Panel for Education policy but the panel rarely, if ever, rejects DOE proposals.

Here is the list of schools to be closed, announced on Friday. Thursday's list of closures is here.

|

District

|

School Name

|

Grade Level

|

|

District 17

|

P.S. 22

|

Elementary

|
|

District 27

|

P.S. 215 Lucretia Mott

|

Elementary

|
|

District 2

|

Washington Irving High School

|

High school

|
|

District 7

|

Samuel Gompers Career And Technical Education High School

|

High school

|
|

District 10

|

Grace Dodge Career And Technical Education High School

|

High school

|
|

District 11

|

Aspire Preparatory Middle School

|

Middle school

|
|

District 13

|

Knowledge And Power Preparatory Academy VII

|

Middle school

|

 

Truncated but not closed:

 

| District 23 |

P.S. 298 Dr. Betty Shabazz

|

K-8

|
|

District 3

|

Wadleigh Secondary School For The Performing Arts

|

Secondary (6-12)

|
|

District 16

|

Frederick Douglass Academy IV

|

Secondary (6-12)

|

 

Schools that will have “targeted action plans” to improve:

 

|

District

|

School Name

|

Grade Level

|
|

District 1

|

P.S. 137 John L. Bernstein

|

Elementary

|
|

District 2

|

High School Of Graphic Communication Arts

|

High school

|
|

District 3

|

Frederick Douglass Academy II

|

Secondary School

|
|

District 7

|

P.S. 277

|

Elementary

|
|

District 8

|

Herbert H. Lehman High School

|

High school

|
|

District 9

|

New Millennium Business Academy Middle School

|

Middle

|
|

District 10

|

Fordham Leadership Academy For Business And Technology

|

High school

|
|

District 11

|

M.S. 142 John Philip Sousa

|

Middle

|
|

District 13

|

P.S. 256 Benjamin Banneker

|

Elementary

|
|

District 13

|

Freedom Academy High School

|

High school

|
|

District 14

|

Juan Morel Campos Secondary School

|

Secondary School

|
|

District 19

|

I.S. 171 Abraham Lincoln

|

Middle

|
|

District 19

|

Cypress Hills Collegiate Preparatory  School

|

High school

|
|

District 23

|

General D. Chappie James Middle School of Science

|

Middle

|
|

District 29

|

P.S. 181 Brookfield

|

Elementary

|
|

District 29

|

Law, Government And Community Service High School

|

High school

|