About Us
MISSION STATEMENTS
To provide all students with a safe and nurturing environment that promotes high expectations through academic rigor, exposure to the arts, and a college bound culture. Students will be provided with a core curriculum that is rich and rigorous which respects diversity in students’ learning styles. We have one guiding principle: Effective Instruction in Every Classroom. We strive for our students to be college bound and prepared with the skills to succeed in the 21st century.
Sophomores and Juniors pose in front of the US Capitol Building on a college trip to Washington, D.C. during which they visited Howard, Georgetown, and George Washington Universities.
HOW WE ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION
Students in an Advanced Placement US Government and Politics class engage in a Mock Congress activity, in which they take on the role of the legislative branch to better understand how a bill becomes a law.
1- We offer eight Advanced Placement courses, enabling students to earn college credits across content areas before graduating.
2- Our partnership with Farmingdale State College, York College and Queensborough Community College's Connect2 College program, enables students to take dual credits courses during their school day, earning both college and HS credits.
3- Career Day, College Applications Week Workshops, Collage Trips across New York and to Washington DC, and Parent Night support students as they explore and prepare for their future collage and career plans.
4- Trips take advantage of our location in world-class city. our students hace seen Hamilton, The Play That Goes Wrong, Wicked, and more on Broadway, as well as visited The New York Times Offices, Cambridge University Press, the United Nations, One World Observatory, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and More!
5-All students engage in an 8-10 credits arts sequence in visual arts, theater, or dance, culminating in an Arts comprehensive Exam.
PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
SUCCEED IN THE CLASSROOM
Students using iPads to research for a Socratic Seminar in AP Environmental Science, one of our eight Advanced Placement courses
Humanities and the Arts challenges students to dream big and accomplish even more. Our strong academic focus is coupled with an equally strong sequence in the Visual Arts that culminates in AP Studio Art in senior year. Performance Arts includes theater, music, and dance, and we have regular performances from students in all of our arts disciplines. A number of our students have also had the chance to display their work for the general public - theater students have performed on Broadway, and visual arts students have had their work displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
Our college‑going culture is fostered by a continuing partnership with Queensborough Community College with the Connect2College Program and Project Prize, while CUNY College Now classes are also available at Queens College for eligible students. Students can begin taking one of our eight Advanced Placement courses during their sophomore year, enabling them to graduate Humanities and the Arts with upwards of thirty college credits by the end of their senior year!
THRIVE OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
Students in our theater program perform a scene they crafted on the stage of Hamilton on Broadway, before enjoying a matinee of the Broadway hit!
We offers an abundance of extracurricular activities to appeal to all students.
Examples of our extracurricular activities include:
1- Nationally recognized school newspaper, The Humanities Tribune
2- Theater Production, Dance Ensemble, Chorus, Instrumental Band
3- Student Government and Senior Council that plan events like dances, Multicultural Night, Blood Drives, Student-Staff Sports, Etc.
4- Trips Across NYC to Broadway Shows (Hamilton, The Play That Goes Wrong, Wicked), Museums
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Natural History, MoMA), Businesses (New York Times, Cambridge University Press), and Global Institutions (United Nations, World Trade Center) and more!
5- College Trips to Washington, D.C., Upstate New York, and more