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]
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.
^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."
^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."
^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."
^"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."
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^"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."
^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."
^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."
^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."
^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."
^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."
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