Bayside High School (Queens)

Bayside High School is an American public high school located in the Bayside neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. It is administered by the New York City Department of Education.

Bayside High School
Address
32-24 Corp Kennedy St Bayside, Queens , New York 11361 United States
Coordinates	40°46′17″N 73°46′51″W
Information
Type	Public
Motto	Anchored in Excellence
Established	March 16, 1936[1]
School district	New York City Department of Education
School number	26Q495
NCES School ID	360009901917[2]
Principal	Tracy Martinez
Teaching staff	177.61 (on an FTE basis)[2]
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	3,011 (2022-2023)[2]
Student to teacher ratio	16.95[2]
Campus	City: Large
Color(s)	Blue and Orange
Mascot	Commodores
Newspaper	The Baysider
Yearbook	Triangle
Website	www.baysidehighschool.org

Performance

Bayside is one of the Highest performing schools in the New York City Department of Education. Its students are admitted into six newly updated programs:^[3] Digital Art & Design, Music Performance & Production, Environmental Engineering & Technology, Humanities & Non-Profit Management, Computer Programming & Web Design, and Sports Medicine & Management.^[4] These programs offer students the opportunity to earn college credits,^[3] participate in industry internships and learn more about careers in the field.^[4]

The school has a 98.6% four-year graduation rate, the highest of any large open-admissions high school in the NYC DOE. The school has pioneered Whole Child Guidance practices and is further improving curriculum through the additions of internships and of numerous college-accredited courses. Bayside High School has been recognized for "closing the achievement gap" for minority students, English language learners (ELL) and students with special needs.^[5] The school offers their students to graduate early if they earn the proper amount of credits.

As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 3,025 students and 185.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.3:1. There were 2,049 students (67.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 159 (5.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.^[2]

History

Bayside High School, Samuel J. Tilden High School, Abraham Lincoln High School, John Adams High School, Walton High School, Andrew Jackson High School, and Grover Cleveland High School were all built during the Great Depression from one set of blueprints, in order to save money. Bayside and Andrew Jackson HS were the final two schools to be completed.^[1][6][7][8] The design was based on Kirby Hall in Gretton, Northamptonshire, England.^[9] The schools were designed as small campuses to provide a "somewhat collegiate atmosphere".^[8] The design of Bayside High School and the other schools, created by architect Walter C. Martin, was considered to be "a modern adaptation of the Adams, Lincoln, and Tilden High Schools", which had all been completed by 1929.^[8] Bayside High School was also the first school building in the city to be constructed using Federal funds, built by the Public Works Administration from 1934 to 1936 at the cost of $2.5 million (equivalent to $54.9 million in 2023).^[9][10]

Bayside opened its doors on March 16, 1936, taking in 2,300 students who had previously attended Flushing High School.^[10]

In 1978 the Bayside High School music program, then under department chairman Sidney Lovett and teacher John Benza, was among the first secondary schools in the nation to purchase and teach music synthesis on a synthesizer, the Roland System 100.

Notable alumni

See also: Category:Bayside High School (Queens) alumni

• Eric Adams (born 1960), Mayor of New York City and former borough President of Brooklyn^[11]
• Adrienne Adams (born 1960), Speaker of the New York City Council, New York City Councilwoman from the 28th district^[12]
• Peggy Adler (born 1942, class of 1959), author and illustrator of children's books; investigative researcher
• Ellen Baker (born 1953, class of 1970), astronaut^[13]
• Jordan Belfort (born 1962), former investment banker whose life was the basis the film The Wolf of Wall Street^[14]
• Action Bronson (born 1983, class of 2002), rapper^[15]
• Mic Geronimo (born 1973), rapper and former reality star
• Glenn Consor, sports broadcaster, Washington Wizards broadcasts, and former NCAA and pro basketball player^[16]
• Chy Davidson (born 1959), former professional football player^[17]
• Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925–1983), chemist, valedictorian, class of 1942^[18]
• Steve Englebright (born 1946, class of 1964), paleontologist, politician—member of the New York State Assembly^[19]
• Jason Eskenazi (born 1960), photographer
• Lovari, musician and actor
• Mae Faggs (1932–2000), track-and-field athlete who was a gold medalist in the Women's 4 × 100 meters relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics^[20]
• Heather Foster (born 1966), Jamaican American professional bodybuilder
• Mohammad Salman Hamdani (1977-2001), lauded for heroism on 9/11^[21]
• Bobby Hammond (born 1952, class of 1971), Educator/doctoral candidate, Former National Football League player & coach
• Ronnie Harmon (born 1964), professional football player^[22]
• Scott Ian (born 1963, class of 1981), musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist for the heavy metal band Anthrax^[23]
• Jipsta (born 1974 as John Patrick "JP" Masterson, class of 1992; valedictorian), rapper who has appeared six times on the Billboard Dance chart^[24]
• Daymond John (born 1969), founder, president, and CEO of FUBU; investor on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank^[25]
• Matthew Kaye (born 1974), former World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler/announcer, currently working for Lucha Underground as an announcer.
• Brian Lehrer (born 1952), host of WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show, a local call in radio show.
• Dan Lilker (born 1964), heavy metal musician, bassist for Nuclear Assault, Brutal Truth and founding member of Anthrax^[23]
• Olivia Longott (born 1981), R&B Singer/rapper, Class of 1998, currently on the VH1 show Love & Hip Hop
• David Nolan (born 1946), historian and author of Fifty Feet in Paradise and The Houses of St. Augustine
• John Paulson (born 1955), founder and president of Paulson & Co., a New York-based hedge fund
• Andrea Peyser (born 1959), columnist for the New York Post
• Vincent Rey (born 1987), professional football player
• Steven J. Ross, Pulitzer Prize finalist and professor at the University of Southern California
• Scott Salem (class of 1970), radio personality, best known as the engineer for The Howard Stern Show
• Gia Scala (1934-1972), actress
• Jack Sinagra (1950–2013), politician who served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2001.^[26]
• Norman Sturner (born 1940), real estate developer
• Joe Thomas (born 1963, class of 1981), talk radio host, radio program director (WCHV/Monticello Media) in Charlottesville, Virginia
• Mike Tirico (born 1966), announcer for ESPN
• Tobias Truvillion (born 1975), actor
• Neil Turbin (born 1963), heavy metal musician, first full-time singer in Anthrax^[23]

References

1. Selby, Alexandra; Umpierrez, Amanda (February 2011). "Bayside's 75th" (PDF). baruch.cuny.edu. The Baysider. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
2. "Search for Public Schools - BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL (360009901917)". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
3. "Bayside High School, Q495, Borough of Queens , Zip Code 11361". Schools.nyc.gov. November 3, 2011. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
4. "Bayside-Douglaston, NY Patch | Local News, Community, Sports, Shopping, Restaurants, Things To Do". Bayside.patch.com. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
5. Walcott, Dennis, M. Progress Report 2010-11. NYC Department of Education
6. "FEDERAL AID ASKED FOR 2 CITY WORKS; $2,500,000 Loan Sought for Construction of Bayside High School in Queens" (PDF). The New York Times. October 4, 1933. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
7. "PLANS FOR 4 SCHOOLS APPROVED BY BOARD; New Buildings Will Provide Seats for 8,250 Children and Cost $2,500,000" (PDF). The New York Times. September 26, 1935. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
8. "New High Schools to Have Campuses; Architectural Plan of Jackson Building and Three Others to Be Collegiate in Style; Design is Modernistic; Besides Queens School, Two In the Bronx and One in Brooklyn Are to Be of This Type" (PDF). The New York Times. December 27, 1931. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
9. Tompkins, Richard (October 13, 1935). "Program Speeded For New Schools; $25,000,000 of Construction With PWA Funds Will Be Under Way by Christmas" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
10. "Bayside School Opened; 2,300 Students at the $2,500,000 Institution Built by PWA" (PDF). The New York Times. March 17, 1936. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
11. Brooklyn's Borough President. brooklyn-usa.org
12. Mays, Jeffrey C. "Adrienne Adams Makes History as First Black N.Y.C. Council Speaker", The New York Times, January 5, 2022. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Ms. Adams and Mr. Adams were classmates at Bayside High School in Queens in the late 1970s. Mr. Adams, discouraged by an undetected learning disability, has spoken often about not being a model student. Ms. Adams, on the other hand, was a cheerleader who founded a gospel chorus at the high school, which was mostly white at the time."
13. Hartocollis, Anemona. "COPING; From the Subway to the Stars", The New York Times, February 9, 2003. Accessed February 14, 2008. "There are exceptions, like the daughter of former Queens Borough President Claire Shulman, Ellen Baker, a physician-astronaut who was on the Bayside High School swim team and rode the shuttle Columbia in 1992."
14. Harrigan, Susan (March 25, 2001) Castles Made of Sand. Brokers who rode fraud to riches now federal witnesses. siliconinvestor.com
15. Zeichner, Naomi. "At Home With: Action Bronson", The Fader, November 30, 2011. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Action Bronson lives in the apartment he's lived in his whole life, at the southern edge of Flushing, Queens. Before he started rapping, Bronson dropped out of Bayside High School and cooked at his father's still-open Mediterranean restaurant in Forest Hills, which specializes in Albanian dishes like Jani me Fasule, a white bean stew."
16. "From NY to Israel, analyst’s longtime friendship with David Blatt", New York Post, June 14, 2015. Accessed December 7, 2020. "Glenn Consor was a New York basketball junkie who used to take the 7 train from Flushing to the Garden to watch his idol, Clyde Frazier. He starred at Bayside High School and Boston University, where he became Rick Pitino’s first point guard in 1979 and ’80, then became so popular playing for Maccabi Haifa they called him Magic Consor in Israel."
17. "CHY DAVIDSON". profootballarchives.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
18. "American National Biography Online". www.anb.org. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
19. "Q&A; Assemblyman Steve Englebright ’75", Stony Brook Matters. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Assemblyman Englebright is a graduate of Bayside High School, received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tennessee in 1969 and a Master of Science degree in Paleontology/Sedimentology from Stony Brook University."
20. Goldstein, Richard. "Mae Faggs Starr, Champion And Track Mentor, Dies at 67", The New York Times, February 11, 2000. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Aeriwentha Mae Faggs was born in Mays Landing, N.J., but grew up in New York City. She was a student at Bayside High School in Queens when, at age 16, she competed in the 1948 Olympics in London, failing to qualify for the 200-meter finals."
21. Otterman, Sharon. "Obscuring a Muslim Name, and an American’s Sacrifice", The New York Times, January 1, 2012. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Despite this history, Mohammad Salman Hamdani is nowhere to be found in the long list of fallen first responders at the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan.... Mr. Hamdani attended Catholic school in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, until the eighth grade, and then played football for Bayside High School in Queens."
22. Harvin, Al. "Football; Harmon Likes Seeing New York And Loves Playing in San Diego", The New York Times, November 23, 1991. Accessed May 19, 2008. "'I have to stay with my teammates out in New Jersey, but the first thing I'm going to do when I arrive is to head for Manhattan,' said Harmon, a consensus all-city football player at Bayside High School in Queens when the Commodores were a powerhouse in the late 1970s and early 1980s."
23. Sharpe-Young, Garry (2007). Metal: The Definitive Guide : Heavy, NWOBH, Progressive, Thrash, Death, Black, Gothic, Doom, Nu. Jawbone Press. ISBN 978-1-906002-01-5.
24. "Jipsta - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on June 13, 2018. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
25. Glader, Sue. "Daymond John, Entrepreneur, Yale Center for Dyslexia. Accessed December 21, 2022. "The answer was Bayside High School’s co-op program, where students worked full-time one week and went to school the next."
26. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, p. 227. E. J. Mullin, 2001. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Senator Sinagra was born in Queens, N.Y., March 18, 1950. He attended Bayside High School there, and received a bachelor's degree from the College of Emporia in 1972."

External links

• Official website