Hyde Park High School (Massachusetts)
Hyde Park High School was a Boston public school located at 655 Metropolitan Ave, in the neighborhood of Hyde Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Hyde Park High taught students in 9th through 12th grade.
The schools has be described as a segregation academy that formed in response to the racial desegregation of Boston public schools.
In his television series Free to Choose, economist Milton Friedman used the school as an example of the failure of the public school system; highlighting the schools use of metal detectors, uniformed police and the state of the facilities.
Hyde Park High is now known as Hyde Park Education Complex. The following are a list of division within the school.
Boston Community Leadership Academy [1]
New Mission High School [2]
Hyde Park Educational Complex/Hyde Park High is accessible by taking the MBTA Hyde Park (MBTA station)[3] bus #32 from the nearby Forest Hills Station.
When the 2010-2011 school year began for Boston Public Schools, Boston's debt rose to $60 million. Superintendent Carol R. Johnson chose to close underperforming schools throughout the city to lower the amount. The Social Justice Academy (SJA), The Engineering School and the Academy for Science and Health (CASH) was relocated to the old Cleveland School building located at 11 Charles Street in Dorchester.
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