The Department of Healthand the Department of Educationhave announced that eight additional schools will closestarting today, Friday May 22nd, in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. The eight schools, which occupy six school buildings, together serve over 6200 children.

These schools will be closed, beginning today:

  • PS/IS 499, the Queens College School for Math, Science & Technology in Flushing, Queens, which includes P993, a District 75 school for disabled students.
  • PS 111, the Seton Falls School, and PS 718, the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, which share a building in Eastchester in the Bronx.
  • PS 143, the Louis Armstrong School, in Corona.
  • PS 203, the Oakland Gardens School, in Bayside.
  • MS 113and P371, another District 75 school for students with disabilities, both in the Ronald Edmonds Learning Center,in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
  • IS 73, the Frank Sansivieri Intermediate School, in Maspeth.