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Cypress Hills School May Move Into Boys and Girls HS Building: Officials

By Camille Bautista | December 27, 2016 3:17pm
 Cypress Hills' Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Healthcare could move to the Boys and Girls High School campus in Bed-Stuy under a proposal being considered by the Department of Education.
Cypress Hills' Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Healthcare could move to the Boys and Girls High School campus in Bed-Stuy under a proposal being considered by the Department of Education.
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BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Boys and Girls High School could be sharing its Bed-Stuy campus with a Cypress Hills school under co-location plans being considered by the city.

The Department of Education is looking at moving the Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Health Care into the Fulton Street building.

The Cypress Hills school's move from the Franklin K. Lane Educational Campus at 999 Jamaica Ave. to 1700 Fulton St. would allow the two facilities to share resources such as AP classes and enrichment programs, according to the DOE.

If it's approved, it would also give neighborhood students the option to attend a Career and Technical Education school.

The Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Healthcare offers projects focused on city health issues and partners with healthcare facilities for lessons.

In the 2015-2016 academic year, the school had 154 students enrolled.

Relocating Urban Assembly would bring it closer to public hospitals to help with its curriculum, according to the DOE, and allow for better accessibility to internships and hands-on learning.

The Boys and Girls campus is just a few blocks away from Interfaith Medical Center.

The historic Fulton Street school, which boasts alumni like actress Lena Horne and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, is one identified by the DOE as struggling.

Boys and Girls’ under performance in recent years landed it on the list of the city’s Renewal Schools and new principal Grecian Harrison recently took the helm

The school has made progress, city data shows, with an uptick in its graduate rate from 50 percent to 58 percent in 2016.

The campus is already shared with two other schools — Research and Service High School and the Nelson Mandela High School — with a current utilization rate of 26 percent, according to the DOE.  

The proposal to co-locate Urban Assembly with Boys and Girls is not yet set in stone, officials said.

“Community feedback is critical to this process and we look forward to listening to students, families and school staff,” DOE spokesman Michael Aciman said.