Percentage of Liberal Arts and Science Institute Students at Midwood

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Midwood High School at Brooklyn College

Location
2839 Bedford Artery Brooklyn, New York, Usa
Information
Type	Public
Motto	Verus, Bonus, Et Pulcher (The True, the Good, and the Beautiful)
Established	1940
School board	New York Urban center Public Schools
School number	K405
Primary	David Cohen
Faculty	206
Grades	nine–12
Enrollment	4100^[one]
Color(s)	bluish white and red
Mascot	Hornet
Newspaper	'' Argus''
Yearbook	'' Epilog''
Website	midwoodhighschool.org

Midwood High School, at Brooklyn College, is a public, urban, co-ed high school located on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City.

Midwood High Schoolhouse was for many years the recipient of multiple accolades because of its competitive educational programs and for the achievements of its students and graduates. Midwood is noted for its strong academic programs, having produced many notable alumni.

Midwood High Schoolhouse celebrates a long tradition of bookish excellence. The school, which is administered by the New York City Department of Education, has an enrollment of 3938 students.^[2] Its H-shaped building, with six Ionic columns and a Georgian cupola, was constructed in 1940 every bit part of the Works Projects Administration.

1 Academics
- one.ane Ranking
- ane.2 Population
- 1.3 Special programs
- 1.iv Avant-garde Placement Courses
- 1.5 Intel Scientific discipline Talent Search Competition
two Extracurricular activities
- ii.1 Sports
- 2.2 SING!
- 2.3 Clubs
- 2.4 Argus
3 Notable alumni
4 Statistics
5 Transportation Data
6 References
7 External links

Academics

Ranking

Midwood Loftier School has nearly 4000 students, is currently ranked in the superlative 150 high schools in the nation and considered "The Schoolhouse Of Excellence" by U.Southward. News and World Study.The Schoolhouse is ranked within the peak five% in New York Metropolis. In the early on 1990s Midwood was chosen as a Bluish Ribbon Secondary School of Excellence past the U.s. Section of Education.

Students from the 2 selective programs often attend top-ranked colleges, many on significant scholarships.^[3] Typically nearly 12% of the seniors are admitted to ane of the Ivy League colleges and 25% of seniors admitted to schools like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NYU, UC Berkeley, and Stanford. The average Sat scores in Midwood High Schoolhouse (2007) was 620 Verbal, 650 Math, and 610 Writing.

The New York Times reported in an article on June 29, 1986, that: "Getting into Midwood Loftier Schoolhouse ... is about as easy as getting into an Ivy League college. More than 12,000 eager eighth graders practical this year for 450 fall openings in Midwood's highly touted programs in the medical sciences and humanities."^[iv]

Population

As many as 3938 students are packed in a building designed for two,800. Classes are held in iii overlapping sessions, with some students,as of Fall 2011, arriving as early as 7:15 a.chiliad. and finishing at 1:30 p.m., and others arriving at ix:xl a.m. and staying until iii:20 p.one thousand. The beginning luncheon menstruation is at 9:45 a.m.; practise for band and orchestra starts as early equally 7 a.m. Advanced Placement courses are so oversubscribed that only students with nearly-perfect grades are permitted to take them.^[5]

A new science annex, congenital across the streets from the original building, opened in the summer of 2008 which can ease the overcrowd problem. The edifice houses new scientific discipline labs that replaced the antiquated labs in the original edifice. The annex too hosts a new library; the library in the original building is now a theater. The annex is connected to the southern stop of the original building past a glass bridge that connects the second and third floors of the buildings.

Special programs

Midwood is composed of three "institutes" – Medical Science, Humanities, and Liberal Arts. Liberal Arts, Humanities and Medical Science students are placed into classes specifically for their course. Placement in the Medical Science and Humanities Institutes is highly competitive and dependent upon strong academic performance.

The Medical Science Institute (MSI) is for students interested in science or the medical field along with mathematical interests. It requires 5 years of scientific discipline and 5 years of math. As of 2007, incoming freshman of the Medical Scientific discipline Institute must choose from three different tracks: Medical, the Enquiry, or Engineering. The Medical Scientific discipline Institute also has its own website which is part of the main schoolhouse website. Click Here For Midwood Science's Home Folio

The Humanities Institute is mainly for students interested in English language arts, literature, and social studies. It requires two foreign languages, including Latin. Also, 5 years of English language, and 5 years of social studies. Although students in the Humanities Program find the plan challenging, particularly due to the extra strange language, they experience that information technology is worth information technology in their academic career.

The Liberal Arts & Scientific discipline Institute (formally called the Collegiate Programme),serves students who reside in the geographical catchment area. Students in the program choose among four main areas of study: Police/Leadership/Customs Service, Pre-engineering/Technology, Performing Arts and Communication/Media Arts.^[vi]

These are supported through the schoolhouse'south courtroom, robotics lab, chemical science lab, drama classrooms and television studio.

Advanced Placement Courses

Midwood claims to offer over 15 Avant-garde Placement courses, and 5 years ago the College Board listed it amidst the best schools in the nation in terms of AP courses offerings. The School is one of the high school in the Metropolis with the highest number of Avant-garde Placement exams taken, and scoring on the Upper Quartile.^[7] Midwood offers Advanced Placement courses in

AP Biology
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
AP Chemistry
AP Computer Science A
AP Economics
AP English Literature
AP Environmental Science
AP European History
AP French Language
AP Human Geography
AP Physics B
AP Physics C: Mechanics
AP Psychology
AP Castilian
AP Statistics
AP United states of america History
AP World History

Intel Science Talent Search Contest

Midwood has two classes that specialize in introducing students to scientific inquiry, culminating in the creation of projects for the Intel Science Talent Search (formerly the Science Research and Social Science Research). In 1999, Midwood had more than semifinalists in the Intel STS and Siemens-Westinghouse Science & Technology Competition than did whatsoever other loftier school in the nation. In 2000, it tied for first place for STS.

Across the United States, 11 secondary schools take produced 20 or more semi-finalists over the years 2002–2010. All of the 11 schools are public schools, and vii out of the 11 (64%) are located in the greater New York area.

Secondary schools of finalists and semi-finalists (2002–2010)^[eight]
Schoolhouse	Location	Semi-finalists	Finalists
Montgomery Blair High School	Silver Spring, Medico	108	sixteen
Stuyvesant High School	New York, NY	103	13
Ward Melville High School	East Setauket, NY	85	11
Thomas Jefferson Loftier School for Science and Technology	Alexandria, VA	75	7
Bronx High School of Science	Bronx, NY	59	6
Paul D. Schreiber Loftier School	Port Washington, NY	50	3
Byram Hills High School	Armonk, NY	46	ten
Texas University of Mathematics and Scientific discipline	Denton, TX	43	7
Dandy Neck Northward High School	Great Neck, NY	31	3
Illinois Math and Scientific discipline Academy	Aurora, IL	29	8
Midwood Loftier School	Brooklyn, NY	23	three

Sports

Midwood's Official PSAL page

Midwood has several PSAL sports teams. They include teams in baseball, bowling, basketball game, cricket, football, golf, cheerleading, handball, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, lawn tennis, rails, wrestling, and volleyball.

Midwood's handball team has won 2 sequent city championships in 2008 and 2009. Midwood Girls' Handball squad has won finals in 2009 and urban center championship in 2010.^[9] Midwood's lacrosse team has won several metropolis championships, including 2006, 2007, and 2008. The team has made the championships the past v years and is the measuring stick for city lacrosse. Midwood also started the first Girls Lacrosse team in Brooklyn.

The Midwood Boy's Volleyball Team, considered to be 1 of the best and the "team to beat" in the PSAL, has gone undefeated in their division for the past 13 years with 4 metropolis championships in 1996, 2001, 2007, and 2009 (the most Volleyball Championships ever past a PSAL team).

The Midwood Boy's Track and Field Team won its first ever indoor rails title in wintertime 2008. Under electric current coach Marc Cohen, the rails and field squad likewise managed to win its kickoff always outdoor track championship in June 2010, upsetting some of the fastest high schools in the urban center and solidifying the legacy of Midwood Track and Field.

The team is given the nickname "The Midwood Hornet" or simply "Hornet".

SING!

SING!, an annual educatee-run inter-school musical theater competition was conceived at Midwood past Bella Tillis, a music teacher, in 1947.^[10] It is still being produced at Midwood. It's also a tradition for many New York City Loftier School seniors, juniors, and "soph-fresh" (freshmen and sophomores working together) who compete against each other to put on the best operation at their own school. The 1989 movie Sing, which starred Lorraine Bracco, was based on SING!. SING has been responsible for hours of dedication and difficult work, as well as vehement competition, amid New York Metropolis's high school students.

In the summer of 2004, the film The Squid and the Whale was filmed in Midwood Loftier Schoolhouse's auditorium, using students from the school's Drama Guild as actress seat-fillers, in 80s-mode costumes. The production as well used background scenes on the stage that had been painted for the Drama Club'due south production of Goodbye Bye Birdie 2 months prior. The film product crew also enlisted the help of a former Drama Guild and SING! lighting manager to assistance them light the stage for the scene.

Clubs

Midwood has nearly 100 clubs, including Fundamental Club, Asian Society, Akiva Lodge, Philosophy, Amnesty International, Latin Society, Young Democrats, West Indian Gild Club Environmental Club, Gay-Directly Alliance, Anime Gild, Blackness Heritage Brotherhood (BHA), Young Writer'southward Guild, Women in Ability Club, Model Congress, ASPCA Club, Jewish club, Model United nations, Hellenist Lodge, Slavic Society, Eastern Orthodox, Snowboard Club and Robotic Gild. Lots of talented students complained that the schoolhouse doesn't have an official Math Team, so a group of students established an unofficial group for students with an interest and talent in math.

Argus

The headline moving-picture show of Midwood's newspaper ARGUS

The Argus is Midwood's official school newspaper. The newspaper is published monthly and gives student journalists a chance to have their articles published. Editors are chosen by Midwood's journalism teacher in June from amongst the inferior Journalism form. Information technology contains dissimilar things such as news, features, op-ed, arts & sports, photography, school info, and web info, all per educatee request/input, likewise as updated news well-nigh PSAL sport events and other events occurring in and exterior the school. The newspaper also has its own website for students who didn't get a chance to read the latest paper edition.

Notable alumni

Woody Allen, Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter, Academy Award-nominated actor
Noah Baumbach, Academy Award-nominated independent film writer-manager
Paul Ben-Victor, actor
Jacques Berlinerblau, associate professor at Georgetown University and author
Andrew D. Bernstein, Senior Director of NBA Photos
Steve Bracey, NBA basketball player
Richard Campagna – 2004 Libertarian Political party Vice Presidential candidate
Marking Pikestaff, American climate scientist and professor at Columbia University
Roz Chast, cartoonist

Didi Conn, stage, screen and television extra (played Frenchy in the original cast of Grease)
John Corigliano, Academy Accolade-, Pulitzer Prize for Music- and Grammy Accolade-winning composer
Richard Cummings, author, playwright, politico, bookish
J. M. DeMatteis, writer of comic books
Hilly Elkins, theater and film producer
Martin J. Fettman, astronaut
Henry Gross, singer-songwriter; Sha Na Na.
Madeleine Grumet, academic in curriculum theory and feminist theory
Gerald Gutierrez, Tony Laurels-winning stage and film director
June Jordan, poet

Emmanuel Lewis, actor
Marc Linder, Contracts Professor - University of Iowa
Michael Lynne, moving picture executive, vintner
Robert Markowitz, movie and telly director
Lawrence A. May, dr., author, and public speaker
Wentworth Miller, Golden Globe Accolade-nominated actor. Though he didn't graduate from Midwood, he did nourish for two years in the late 1980s.
Joel Moses, erstwhile provost, MIT
Eric Nadel, Texas Rangers radio announcer since 1979
Kevin Parker, New York Land Senator
Irma S. Raker, lawyer and jurist ⋅
Adam Richman, TV host of Man five. Nutrient (Travel Channel)
Neil Rosenshein, operatic tenor
Andre-Michel Schub, pianist

Erich Segal, author, professor, University Laurels-nominated screenwriter
Heather Simms, actress
Shaun Smith, NFL Football Role player
Stephen J. Solarz, U.S. Congressman (Brooklyn, NY)- 1975–1993
Jason Starr, novelist
Sy Syms, businessman and philanthropist
Nib Thompson, New York City Comptroller
Elliot Tiber, artist and screenwriter, helped suit Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY
Sean Wilentz, Professor of History, Princeton University
Victor Williams, thespian
Zach Zarba, NBA official

Statistics

Admissions policy: neighborhood school; screened; MUST take 90 or higher on all major subjects, either a level three or 4 on both New York State Math and English exam to exist considered equally an applicant.(For Medical Science+Humanities)and an 85 or above on all subjects and at least a level 3 on both The New York State Math and English Exam to be consider on the Bilingual program (Part of the Medical Scientific discipline Program).
Grade levels: ix–12
Graduation rate (2009–2010): 91%
Grade size: 24–33
Ethnicity: 25% Due west, 34% B, 11% H, 30% A
Average SAT score: 1880/2400
Free lunch: 28%

Transportation Information

Subway:

Flatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College (2 v trains).
Avenue H (Q train).

Bus:

B6 or B11 to Glenwood Route – Bedford Avenue.
Q35, B41 or B103 to Glenwood Road – Flatbush Avenue.
B44 to Glenwood Road – Nostrand Avenue.

References

Notes

^ "New York Metropolis Department of Education". Schools.nyc.gov. August 9, 2007. http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/22/K405/default.htm . Retrieved August 26, 2011.
^ ".". http://schools.nyc.gov/OA/SchoolReports/2009-10/Progress_Report_Overview_2010_HS_K405.pdf . Retrieved Baronial 26, 2011.
^ "H.Due south. 405 Midwood High School". insideschools.org. http://insideschools.org/high/scan/school/935 . Retrieved August 26, 2011.
^ Jane Perlez (June 29, 1986). "Education Watch; Philosophical Objections To Elite Metropolis High Schools". New York City: The New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50713FC38580C7A8EDDAF0894DE484D81&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fOrganizations%2fC%2fColumbia%20University%20 . Retrieved August 26, 2011.
^ "New York Metro: All-time High Schools in New York". Nymag.com. October 22, 2001. http://nymag.com/urban/articles/schools01/school9.htm . Retrieved August 26, 2011.
^ "Midwood High School, K405, Borough of Brooklyn, Zip Lawmaking 11210". Schools.nyc.gov. October 31, 2009. http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/High/Directory/school/?sid=4088 . Retrieved Baronial 26, 2011.
^ "Best High Schools in New York". New York Metro. October 22, 2001. http://newyorkmetro.com/urban/articles/schools01/school9.htm . Retrieved Baronial 26, 2011.
^ "Results of the Intel Science Talent Search". Society for Scientific discipline & the Public. http://world wide web.societyforscience.org/sts/results.
^ "Playoff Brackets". Psal.org. May 17, 2010. http://www.psal.org/psalsports/psalbracket/psal_32bracket.asp?csport=020&chapeau=668&season=2010 . Retrieved August 26, 2011.
^ George Cifrancis III. "Jessica Steen Sing Article". Jessicasteen.com. http://www.jessicasteen.com/singsingsing_art.html . Retrieved Baronial 26, 2011.

External links

Midwood Loftier Schoolhouse Official Website
NYC Department of Education new School Portal For Midwood High School
Midwood High School Concrete Science Department
Midwood High School Profile
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