Norman Thomas High School
| Norman Thomas High School | |
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| Address | |
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111 East 33rd Street New York, NY, (New York County), 10016 United States | |
| Coordinates | 40°44′47.39″N 73°58′50.62″W / 40.7464972°N 73.9807278°WCoordinates: 40°44′47.39″N 73°58′50.62″W / 40.7464972°N 73.9807278°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Government funding, High school |
| Status | Open |
| NCES District ID | 3600077[1] |
| NCES School ID | 360007702039[2] |
| Principal | Philip Martin, Jr.[3] |
| Faculty | 114.19 (on an FTE basis)[2] |
| Grades | 9 to 12 [2] |
| Enrollment | 2,147 [2] (2009-2010 school year) |
| • Grade 9 | 871 [2] |
| • Grade 10 | 619 [2] |
| • Grade 11 | 302 [2] |
| • Grade 12 | 131 [2] |
| • Ungraded | 224 [2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 18.80 [2] |
| Campus type | Urban |
| School color(s) | Maroon and Black |
| Mascot | Tigers |
| Website | Template:Http://www.normanthomas.info/ |
The Norman Thomas High School for Business and Commercial Education is a public high school in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City under the New York City Department of Education. Formerly known as Central Commercial High School, and before that, the Central School of Business and Arts, its former location was on 42nd Street in a structure constructed with a 20-story office building in the air rights above it. It was renamed after Presbyterian minister and Socialist activist Norman Thomas and moved to occupy the first nine floors of 3 Park Avenue, a 42-story skyscraper on East 33rd Street at Park Avenue in 1975.
The high school was originally designed to train students for secretarial and commercial occupations such as accounting, bookkeeping, merchandising and salesmanship, clerical skills, stenography and typing. As of 1940, every senior at Central Commercial High School was required to complete four weeks of work in an office during the last semester.[4] In later years, this has expanded to include such topics as data processing[5] and physical distribution[6]
Notable alumni
- Luis Flores, professional basketball player
- Aurelia Greene, Assemblywoman and deputy Bronx borough president
- Armelia McQueen, actress
- Special K, rapper
- Kool Moe Dee, rapper
- Tito Puente, Latin jazz and salsa musician and composer[7]
- Barbara Alston, Mary Thomas, and Myrna Girard, three of the original members of The Crystals; recorded their first single, "There's No Other" while wearing their prom dresses, as they had come to the recording studio straight from the CCHS prom[8]
- John Kerwin, talk show host
References
- ↑ "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for New York City Geographic District # 2". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Search for Public Schools - School Detail for Norman Thomas High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
- ↑ "Welcome - Norman Thomas High School - M620 - New York City Department of Education". The New York City Department Of Education. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
- ↑ Pennsylvania Association of School and College Placement. School and college placement Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Association of School and College Placement, 1940; Vol. 1, p. 64
- ↑ Johnson, Bob. "Data Processing Finding Place in NYC Schools" Computerworld July 6, 1981; p. 18
- ↑ Handling & Shipping Management Cleveland: Penton/IPC, 1983. Volume 24, pp. 35, 89
- ↑ Loza, Steven Joseph. Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1999; p. 1
- ↑ Warner, Jay. American Singing Groups: A History from 1940 to Today Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006; p. 351