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.

In television

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.

Name/Structure Change

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]

Location

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.

Closing

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.

Alumni

• William Monroe Trotter, civil rights leader and founder of African American newspaper Boston Guardian

• Rev. Robert Drinan, U.S. House of Representatives

• Russell Holmes, Massachusetts State Representative

• Steven A. Barthell, author, Women R Stupid & Men R the Reason and Sex, Love & Pain: Methods II the Madness'

• Russ Lee, basketball player, sixth overall pick of 1972 NBA draft

References

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