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Pace University High School, also known as "Pace High School," is a public high school located in the New York City borough

Borough (New York City)

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of Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

, affiliated with Pace University

Pace University

Pace University is an American private, co-educational, and comprehensive multi-campus university in the New York metropolitan area with campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York.-Programs:...

School history

Established by Pace University

Pace University

and the New York City Department of Education

New York City Department of Education

The New York City Department of Education is the branch of municipal government in New York City that manages the city's public school system. It is the largest school system in the United States, with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,700 separate schools...

, Pace High School was founded with grants from New Visions for Public Schools with money donated from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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, the Carnegie Corporation of New York

Carnegie Corporation of New York

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, and George Soros

George Soros

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’ Open Society Institute

Open Society Institute

The Open Society Institute , renamed in 2011 to Open Society Foundations, is a private operating and grantmaking foundation started by George Soros, aimed to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform...

. Pace High School opened its doors to its first class on September 13, 2004. The school is among the 330 out of over 1,400 New York City public schools (23.6%) designated as an Empowerment School

Empowerment School

An Empowerment School is a school using the Empowerment Support Organization of the New York City Department of Education . Eric Nadelstern is the Empowerment Schools CEO.-History:...

which allows it more autonomy in choosing a curriculum. Pace High School graduated its first class in 2008. Everyone graduated and went onto two and four-year colleges. Pace University High School also awards the top 5 students of the graduating class a full 4 year scholarship to Pace University

Overview

Located in lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York...

, Pace High School is offered a high level of involvement with a national university, being just ten blocks away from Pace University's New York City campus. Pace High School students are granted University identification badges, which allow them access to the University's campuses, computing system and e-mail, libraries, student union

Student activity center

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, gymnasiums, and cafeterias.

Incoming 9th grade students participate in "First Summer" Freshman Retreat in August; a freshman orientation where students spend three days and two nights at the Pace University Pleasantville-Briarcliff campus in Westchester County, New York

Westchester County, New York

Westchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949,113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities...

getting to know the high school staff, students and school programs.

11th graders are placed in internships, as well as a community service component of 180 hours required for graduation; the goal being to create a résumé

Résumé

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of quality educational experiences. Starting in the 11th grade students can take classes at Pace University.

Student body

The school accepts about 108 students each year out of more than 4000 applicants. 30% of the student body comes from Brooklyn and Queens, but the school has students from all five boroughs. Although the first graduating class was roughly 50% Asian (because it drew its initial students from the surrounding Chinatown neighborhood), subsequent classes were more diverse, so the school's demographics are now evenly divided among the Latino/a, African-American, and Asian ethnicities.

First Graduating Class 2008
Pace University High School graduated its first class in 2008. The graduation rate for the Class of 2008 was 100%. Students went on to many colleges. These include Baruch College

Baruch College

Bernard M. Baruch College, more commonly known as Baruch College, is a constituent college of the City University of New York, located in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, New York City. With an acceptance rate of just 23%, Baruch is among the most competitive and diverse colleges in the nation...

, Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...

, John Jay

John Jay

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, Hunter College

Hunter College

Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...

, Queens College, Binghamton University

Binghamton University

Binghamton University, also formally called State University of New York at Binghamton, , is a public research university in the State of New York. The University is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York system...

, Buffalo State, New Paltz

State University of New York at New Paltz

The State University of New York at New Paltz, known as SUNY New Paltz for short, is a public university in New Paltz, New York. It was founded in 1828 as the School for teaching of classics. In 1885, the New Paltz Normal and Training School was established as a school to prepare teachers for the...

, Stony Brook University, Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

, Pace University

Pace University

, St. John’s University, Syracuse University

Syracuse University

Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...

, Penn State University, and Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

.

Second Graduating Class 2009
Pace University High School graduated its second class in 2009. Students went on to many colleges including Pace University

Pace University

, Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

, John Jay

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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, Penn State, Albany

University at Albany, SUNY

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, Old Westbury, and Queens College, Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

, Syracuse University

Syracuse University

, and many others

Third Graduating Class 2010
Already students have been accepted to schools like Loyola University, Penn State, St. John's University, Baruch College

Baruch College

, Syracuse University

Syracuse University

, Pace University

Pace University

, New Paltz

State University of New York at New Paltz

, Stony Brook University and Fordham University

Fordham University

Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

with some students receiving full scholarships to those universities.

Advancement Placement Classes/Honors Classes

Pace University High School offers many AP Classes as well as Honors Classes. All AP Classes are taught at Pace University

Pace University

at no charge to the students. Students will get college credits for the AP Classes. To be placed in an AP class you need to take an entrance exam in your 10th grade year. Honors classes are taught at the high school. To be placed in the honors classes, a student must maintain a 90+ average in their 10th/11th grade year.

AP English
AP English
AP English can stand for two distinct Advanced Placement Programs provided by the College Board:*AP English Language and Composition*AP English Literature and Composition...
AP Global Studies
Honors Math

The school also allows students in the 11th and 12 grade to take college courses for free at Pace University during the school year. To be eligible students must be enrolled in AP English

AP English

AP English can stand for two distinct Advanced Placement Programs provided by the College Board:*AP English Language and Composition*AP English Literature and Composition...

during their 11th grade year. Students can take Calculus

Calculus

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, Writing

Writing

Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols . It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.Writing most likely...

, and many more.

Awards

In 2006, Pace High School received Region Nine Recognition for High Daily Attendance
Received First Place in the Verizon/YMCA Marketing Exposition.
In 2006 Pace High School was honored by the Blackboard Awards for the way it integrates technology into instruction and for its receptivity to parent involvement
Pace University High School is also listed in Clara Hemphill's New York City's Best Public High Schools Guide.
Pace University High School is listed as #38 out of 400 NYC Best High Schools by the New York Post
New York Post
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Extracurricular activities

Pace High School has many extracurricular activities for students. Extracurricular activities include fine arts

ARts

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, drama

Drama

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, student government, yearbook

Yearbook

A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually. Virtually all American, Australian and Canadian high schools, most colleges and many elementary and middle schools publish yearbooks...

, literary magazine

Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

, debate

Debate

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team, anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

, technology

Technology

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, film

Film

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, step

Step dance

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, and National Honor Society

National Honor Society

The National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...

. Every year, the activities change.

Besides the intramural sports

Intramural sports

Intramural sports or intramurals are recreational sports organized within a set geographic area. The term derives from the Latin words intra muros meaning "within walls", and was used to indicate sports matches and contests that took place among teams from "within the walls" of an ancient city...

, the high school also participates in the Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL). There is one PSAL team and that is basketball, both a boys' and girls' team. Because the space we have at the school is limited there isn't time for so many sports teams to come about or even practice. The school has a small outdoor track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

(rare for public schools in Manhattan

Manhattan

), as well as a gym facility in the building that is shared with the middle school students and used only for gym class.

Field trips

Field trips to Pace University are called "the bridge to bridge walk" because Pace High School is located at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge

Manhattan Bridge

The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn . It was the last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges...

, and Pace University is located at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River...

(a 10-15 minute walk).

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